NASA astronaut Dale Gardner holds up a "For Sale" sign in a nod to the malfunctioning satellites he and Joe Allen salvaged during space shuttle Discovery's STS-51A mission in 1984. Gardner, 65, died ...
Countless Hoosiers — past and present — have helped NASA go everywhere from the International Space Station to the cratered-surface of the Moon. Engineers, pilots and doctors from Indiana have gone on ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On this day 40 years ago, astronaut Bruce McCandless drifted away from the space shuttle and into history. The photo of his untethered spacewalk became one of the most iconic ...
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In 1985, Space Shuttle Discovery crew — from left to right, (front row) Commander Frederick Hauck, Mission Specialist Anna Lee Fisher, Steven Merritt; (back row) pilot David M. Walker (1944 - 2001), ...