On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off ...

On June 17, 1985, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched on NASA's STS-51-G mission, carrying payload specialist Sultan Salman ...

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...

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Seen in this historic photo from the U.S. space agency, the first Space Shuttle External Tank, or the Main Propulsion Test Article, entered NASA history on September 9th, 1977, when it rolled off of ...