Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution Day of America’s bicentennial year—NASA unveiled its first space shuttle orbiter, OV-101, to the public. NASA had originally planned to name the vehicle Constitution, but a letter-writing campaign changed the agency’s plans. Nearly 100,000 fans of the Star Trek television series wrote the White House urging that the […]
Category:
Space Shuttle
Posted on
September 17, 2026
Sign up for our newsletter:
Categories
7
14
1
299
208
6
1
30
17
54
46
40
1
2
1
3
1
1
10
17
3
45
14
5
202
1
95
4
11
2
141
1
2
6
2
4
2
3
45
19
3
3
46
1
6
3
1
136
1
100
2
1
7
2
11
10
1
1
16
7
10
1
30
69
6
1
18
47
10
34
361
13
113
21
403
14
11
1
3
1
3
1
1
2
34
3
2
2
14
29
4
1
1
1
21
186
38
3
6
1
2
1
278
5
10
1
62
1
133
1
386
17
1
33
12
13
170
58
22
10
3
1
4
5
11
112
18
1
27
7
10
112
67
36
232
19
9
1
1
54
11
1
4
14
41
26
2
15
35
6
657
13
221
4
19
1
8
18
3
1
6
2
6
1
1
1
370
3
17
13
1
1
3
46
10
1
3
107
1
385
11
3
159
151
29
105
48
2
2
Blog Posts
APOD: 2026 September 20 – Analemma over the Callanish Stones
September 20, 2026
APOD: 2026 September 19 – A Zodiacal Night
September 19, 2026
NASA Invites Media to Albania Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
September 18, 2026
Newsletter Archive
- ‹ previous
- 3 of 3