The Mercury Monument stands outside of Complex 14 was dedicated on this day 49 years ago. The monument shows the number 7 (in honor of the “Original Seven” astronauts) inside of the astronomical symbol for the planet Mercury. Underneath the slab is a time capsule that contains artifacts related to Project Mercury, including photos, film […]
History
STS-3 Space Shuttle Columbia Photo And Video Collection
Former NASA astronaut Gordon Fullerton passed away this week. In memory of the death of a great astronaut, here is our photo and video history collection for STS-3, the third flight of space shuttle Columbia. Fullerton served as pilot of the third of four missions in the Orbiter Flight Test project. The primary mission objective […]
It’s Been 20 Years Since The First Flight Of DC-X
It’s been 20 years since the remarkable DC-X Delta Clipper Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) test vehicle made its first flight. Many people still believe DC-X should have been the chosen vehicle for NASA’s X-33 RLV program but that Lockheed Martin’s VentureStar won only because of direct, and political, intervention by Vice President Al Gore, who proudly made […]
Photo/Video Feature: 38 Years Ago, The Mission Of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
The first international partnership in space wasn’t the International Space Station. It wasn’t even the Shuttle-Mir series of missions. It was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international human spaceflight. On July 15, 1975, an Apollo spacecraft launched carrying a crew of three and docked two days later on July 17, with a Soyuz spacecraft […]
Stephen Hawking – “Why Go To Space?” – NASA 50th Anniversary Lecture
MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome to the campus of George Washington University in downtown Washington, D.C., for what promises to be a very remarkable afternoon. My name is John Logsdon. I am the director of the Space Policy Institute here at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs. We are a very happy co-host, along with Lockheed […]
On Eve Of Demolition, SLC-17’s Twin Pads Bridge Space Age At Cape Canaveral
The twin launch gantries that mark Space Launch Complex 17 bridge the Space Age from the early days when small rockets achieving modest successes made headlines to the modern era of large boosters regularly lofting probes and satellites into precise orbits with little fanfare. In a time of gigantic launch servicing structures, control rooms and […]