On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the ...

On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live ...

On Dec. 9, 2006, the first-ever Swedish astronaut launched to the International Space Station. Arne Christer Fuglesang flew on the space shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist for mission STS-116.

On June 26, 1954, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics – basically pre-1958 NASA – moved their headquarters to a brand new facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California. More ...

Attached to the outside of the International Space Station, circling the Earth 16 times every day, ... (OTD) on the OrbView-1 satellite, which circled Earth from 1995 to 2000.