Tag: Space Shuttle
On Jan. 28, 1986 the Challenger and its seven-member crew were lost 73 seconds after launch when a booster failure resulted in breakup of the vehicle Taken on May 6, 1985, the interesting picture in this post shows Space Shuttle Challenger landing on lakebed runway 17L at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB). According to NASA, Shuttle orbiter Challenger (OV-099) joined NASA’s...
The New York ANG 106th Rescue Wing provided a rescue support package at Patrick AFB, which is located near the Kennedy Space Center, for 109 of those Space Shuttle missions Forty-five members of the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing are heading to Hawaii on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 to participate in a joint NASA/Department of Defense mission...
The program was codenamed "Project Moonflower" and was aimed to sell the still top-secret F-117 stealth fighter to the United Kingdom Newly declassified documents released from the British National Archives reveal that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had offered Margaret Thatcher the chance to work on U.S. advanced military programs during the 1980s. Among them there were the Space Transportation System (STS, as the Space...
