Forty years ago, in 1983, the Space Shuttle Columbia flew its first international spaceflight, STS-9. The mission included—for the first time—the European Space Agency’s Spacelab pressurized module and featured more than 70 experiments from American, Canadian, European, and Japanese scientists. Europeans were particularly proud of this “remarkable step” because “NASA, the most famous space agency […]
Category:
NASA History, Brewster H. Shaw Jr., Byron K. Lichtenberg, John W. Young, Owen K. Garriott, Robert A. R. Parker, STS-9
Posted on
November 27, 2023
Sign up for our newsletter:
Categories
2
23
19
3
243
77
1
1
13
1
36
1
2
3
1
11
4
10
21
5
4
1
12
12
8
1
2
239
2
296
2
37
1
6
1
5
10
6
13
13
1
13
1
1
3
1
3
23
1
55
1
38
131
107
130
135
6
10
86
23
301
1
1
5
4
1
1
16
27
3
45
28
2
85
93
30
1
4
3
1
4
110
1
545
1
197
2
1
13
11
64
22
1
1
1
6
3
87
2
3
3
2
8
8
28
276
2
4
46
1
7
10
1
1
38
33
4
3
2
2
3
1
16
4
1
1
177
141
18
1
12
3
1
6
282
43
11
156
160
1
39
26
2
4
10
5
1
12
1
3
1
1
16
16
2
1
Blog Posts
NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Human Lander Challenge
June 27, 2025
Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15
June 27, 2025