Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

In this adapted excerpt, he recounts his STS-98 space shuttle crew’s February ... riding herd on the checklist and our network of a half-dozen laptop computers. Marsha, on her fifth mission ...

"The checklist was extremely complex ... Therefore, the loop should be considered failed, and the Space Shuttle should return to Earth. As well as a First Day PLS (Planned Landing) at Edwards ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill ...