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

October 10, 1984: Kathy Sullivan and Dave Leestma with the helmets they will wear on a spacewalk ***** Wake up… Read more 40 years ago: 13th Shuttle flight harvests data about the Earth

Oct. 5, 1984: The Earth Radiation Budge Satellite on the end of the Shuttle’s robot arm. ***** He scoffs at… Read more 40 Years ago: Challenger takes flight on “Lucky 13”

Sept. 5, 1984: Discovery touches down with a hydraulic leak in its righthand main landing gear. ***** It’s our seventh… Read more Forty years ago: Discovery landing not quite routine

Forty years ago: Ice blocks the water dump ports of Discovery. On reentry, it could break off and damage the… Read more Discovery’s first flight: Tackling the ice

A test solar-power wing rises from Discovery’s payload bay during the 12th Shuttle flight, 40 years ago. ***** So far,… Read more Discovery’s first flight: The ice cometh