When the space shuttle Atlantis blasts off on Friday, it will mark the final NASA shuttle mission ever. But the shuttering of the 30-year-old program isn’t the end of American space exploration — in ...
NASA Fuels Up Atlantis for Final Launch Published May 14, 2010 • Updated on May 14, 2010 at 6:21 am Forecasters said there is a 70 percent chance of good weather for the scheduled afternoon launch of ...
Exactly 54 years ago today on Jan. 4, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill authorizing $5.5 million to develop a ...