April 16, 1985: Astronauts Jeff Hoffman and Dave Griggs install make-shift “fly swatters” on the end the Discovery’s 50-ft.-long robot… Read more Forty years ago: Shuttle mission 16 makes an unscheduled spacewalk

April 13, 1970: The Apollo 13 accident cut short the lifetime of Apollo. (Shown in the Lunar Module Aquarius, (left… Read more 55 years ago: Apollo 13 foreshadows end of lunar project

The 16th Shuttle flight: The Syncom/Leasat communications satellite rolls out of Discovery’s payload bay, the Omni antenna folded down at.… Read more Forty years ago: STS 51-D, “The Omni is still Down”

Nov. 20, 1969: Apollo 12’s commander, Pete Conrad inspects Surveyor III. The Lunar Module Intrepid sits in the distance beyond… Read more 55 years ago: Dust

Nov. 14, 1984: Dale Gardner stings the Westar satellite, the circular braking plate visible like a steering wheel. ***** The… Read more 40 Years ago: Mission 14 snares a second satellite

Nov. 12, 1984: Joe Allen, at right, latches onto the stranded Palapa communications satellite. ****** Early on Nov. 12, 1984,… Read more 40 years ago: The 14th Shuttle mission switches to “Plan B” to retrieve satellite

Nov. 8, 1984: The chase is on! Discovery launches on a flight two deploy two communications satellites and retrieve two… Read more 40 years ago: 14th Shuttle flight launches on most ambitious mission since Apollo

Oct. 13, 1984: Challenger, under the control of Bob Crippen, lands at the Kennedy Space Center to conclude Shuttle mission… Read more 40 Years ago: Bob Crippen finally lands one at KSC

The Voskhod 1 crew (L to R) of Komarov, Yegorov and Feoktistov. ***** Sixty years ago today, October 12, the… Read more 60 years ago: Voskhod 1 — an “Apollo class” spacecraft flies?

Oct. 11, 1984: Dave Leestma, bottom, works on a mock satellite refueling system. Kathy Sullivan floating at the Shuttle’s robot… Read more 40 Years ago: The first American woman to make a spacewalk