This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

When the Space Shuttle finally flew in 1981, NASA gained a spacecraft capable of carrying out significant amounts of on-orbit research independently – particularly when equipped with a Spacelab ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Gelluloid Domination: SpaceLab Simulator Run a spaceship's lab module all by yourself while trying to find a cure for close-to-extinct humanity.

The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 as early as this ...

The Mobile SpaceLab, created by SCORPIO-V Division of HNu Photonics based in Kahului, will conduct experiments on the International Space Station in February. HNu Photonics photos A multimillion ...

He was on the nine day mission supporting Spacelab Life Sciences. Provided by NASA By Mike SmithEl Rito Media Carlsbad Mayor Richard Lopez praised him as a leader, and people of all ages asked ...

Two years later he became the first person to fly six space missions when he commanded Columbia on the first Spacelab mission. It was his last journey into space. Young had been due to command a ...

Other items in the auction include spaceflight hardware from rockets and space shuttles such as an Apollo module power supply and parts from Saturn V, Mercury-Redstone, Spacelab and Gemini.

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven crew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, on a mission named STS-47.

Exhibits in the Exploring Space galleries include the three-metre-high, 600kg Spacelab 2 X-ray telescope that was flown on British space missions and full-scale models of the Huygens Titan probe ...

Gaffney was a payload specialist and was inducted into the Carlsbad Hall of Fame on Oct. 11, 2024. He was on the nine day mission supporting Spacelab Life Sciences. Provided by NASA By Mike ...