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NASA video shows the first human to float freely in space

On February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II made history by becoming the first human to float freely in space ...
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Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...
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The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster explained

Mr. Beat tells the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which shook NASA and the country as a whole as the first ...
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See the Space Shuttle ‘Endeavour’ in a Unique Vertical Display Before Its New Exhibition Launches at the California Science Center

This November, visitors to the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles will get to see the "ready-to-launch" "Endeavour" complete with rocket boosters and a fuel tank ...

Meet the only NASA astronaut to climb Mount Everest

Scott Parazysnki is the only NASA astronaut and the first person in history to have both flown in space and climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.

Final NASA Space Shuttle crew reflects under Atlantis 15 years later

The final NASA Space Shuttle crew reunited under Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for the 15th anniversary of STS-135.