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STS-60 was the first mission of the U.S./Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, and the 18th flight of Discovery, in which Sergei K. Krikalev became the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used NASA Space Shuttle Discovery , which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on February 3, 1994, from Kennedy Space Center , Florida .
In July 1961, NASA started the construction of the permanent facility, Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF). The facility was completed in October 1963 dedicated on May 14, 1964. In the initial setup of the SFOF, there were 31 consoles, 100 closed-circuit television cameras, and more than 200 television displays to support Ranger 6 to Ranger ...
Discovery STS-120 launch, October 23, 2007 Astronauts Andrew Feustel (right) and Michael Fincke, outside the ISS during the STS-134 mission's third spacewalk. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing next to a boulder at Taurus-Littrow. Astronaut Peter Wisoff on a robotic arm, 1993. NASA has successfully launched over 200 crewed flights.
Rocket Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas-Able United States 2: 0: 2: 0: Retired Atlas LV-3A Agena-A United States 3: 1: 2: 0: Maiden flight Juno II United States
May 26, 2022: "NASA’s New Horizons mission’s second extended mission proposal was approved." This two-year mission "will make distant observations of Uranus and Neptune[,] map the very faint 'cosmic background' in visible and ultraviolet (UV) light [and use] its instruments to understand the motions of charged particles as they interact ...
As NASA prepares to blast off its new moon rocket, the space agency is poised to return to the moon for the first time in half a century. On this day 60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy ...
Inside the Near-Fatal 1970 NASA Mission — And Exactly What Went Wrong. Maddie Garfinkle. September 5, 2024 at 9:00 AM. ... “More than 50 years after the mission, ...
STS-61-B was the 23rd NASA Space Shuttle mission, and its second using Space Shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle was launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on November 26, 1985. During STS-61-B, the shuttle crew deployed three communications satellites , and tested techniques of constructing structures in orbit .