Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

As we saw last month, in that cosmodrome there is a huge hangar, the MZK, in which there are two abandoned space shuttles from the Buran program, recently seen by some Spanish explorers who dared to ...

The new shuttle orbiter Atlantis glass cockpit has nine Honeywell Multifunctional Electronic Subsystems (MEDS) liquid crystal displays (see page 54). Atlantis is set for launch with the new system in ...

Abstract: The paper discusses prevention of data pollution in the space shuttle cockpit. The paper examines the process and results of designing cockpit avionics upgrade (CAU) system to mitigate ...

“AstroNots,” a fun Australian short that just played the Fantasia Film Festival, is about an astronaut who admits, just before launch, that he isn’t really an astronaut. He’s faked his way to the top.

There is a scene in the new science fiction film "Spaceman" where Adam Sandler, playing a Czech astronaut, floats by a brown duffle bag attached to one of the walls of his spaceship. There is nothing ...

In addition to his time in space, he tested and evaluated the space station’s U.S. laboratory module Destiny during its final assembly at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, ...

In the moments before Sally Ride entered the cockpit of ‘The Challenger,’ the five other women in line for the task reflect on being pioneers. The following is an excerpt from The Six: The Untold ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — In honor of May the fourth, aka Star Wars Day, here’s a look at astronauts who graduated from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Ashby graduated with a Master of Science ...