The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United ... DC with the name and number of a document related to the Space Shuttle program and get a copy. By the time of the first launch of Columbia in ...

The remnants of the only Russian shuttle to leave Earth were then cut down for scrap and now, the program is survived only by an engineering prototype that never flew and a second ship that was ...

Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station.

Vakhtang Vachnadze, a Soviet and Russian space engineer ... The creation of the Energiya rocket and the Buran space shuttle became the most impressive program in the history of domestic space ...

NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs ... Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, 20 years after Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

Russia struck a shuttle bus in the regional center of Kherson on Dec. 1, killing three and injuring eight people, local authorities reported. The attack occurred at 8:15 a.m. local time in the ...

with the Soviet Union.Despite the uncertainties surrounding Carter's motivations, the decision proved pivotal. The Space Shuttle program, which eventually led to groundbreaking missions such as ...