In 1986, NASA's Solar System Exploration Committee (SSEC) published its report Planetary Exploration through Year 2000: An Augmented Program. Leading the pack of proposed advanced robotic planetary ...
Sally Ride was a member of the 1978 astronaut class, the first selected for Space Shuttle flights. On mission STS-7 (18-24 June 1983), she became the first American woman in space. Ride flew one more ...
Nearly two years after the Challenger space shuttle explosion, NASA remains more grounded than ever. The agency had hoped to restore itself to vigor in 1987, but the year instead dealt a string of ...
For the second year in a row, NASA has chosen McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. and Brown and Associates Management Services Inc. as two of the top contractors at Kennedy Space Center. McDonnell ...
John W. Townsend Jr., an American rocket and satellite pioneer who ran NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center from 1987 to 1990, died from lung cancer Oct. 29 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. He ...
Scientists have confirmed the fate of a star that underwent a dazzling supernova visible from Earth over three decades ago: It transformed into a neutron star, one of the most peculiar entities in the ...
Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called SN 1987A, blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several ...
NASA just released a new image from its Webb Space Telescope of renowned supernova SN 1987A, located 168,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was first discovered in February 1987, ...
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