A leaky ship. The Skylab 3 Apollo successfully docked to the space station on July 28, 1973, despite a propellant… Read more 50 years ago: Skylab 3 launches into trouble

June 24, 1983: Waved off from landing in Florida, Challenger touches down at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ***** We’re… Read more Forty years ago: STS-7; the ‘wave-off’

Forty years ago: Challenger as seen from the SPAS platform which it deployed and later retrieved after a day of… Read more June 22, 1983: STS-7 conducts rendezvous tests

Fifty years ago: The first Skylab crew, led by Pete Conrad (at right on the steps), move from their Apollo… Read more June 22, 1973: First Skylab crew returns

June 19, 1963: Valentina Tereshkova, back to camera, with her Vostok 6 capsule. ***** The time:  June 19, 1963.  … Read more Sixty years ago: Twin Vostok flights return to Earth

June 18, 1983: Challenger rides a thin column of solid exhaust above the clouds. ***** It’s June 18, 1983, launch… Read more Forty years ago: STS-7 launches a flight of firsts

Valentina Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6 became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963. ***** When would a second… Read more Sixty years ago: The first woman in space

***** We celebrate their firsts and celebrate them as the first to fly to the outer fringes of the solar… Read more Forty years ago: First beyond the planets

Al Shepard had a capsule, a name for it, and a goal — at least three days in space in… Read more Sixty years ago: Project Mercury’s final moment