Vanguard-1 is the second U.S. satellite launched to space. Conceived by the Naval Research Laboratory in 1955, it was ...

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995 ... with one hatch opening into the mid-deck and the other into the payload bay. In the early 1990s, the airlock was enlarged to 185 cubic feet and moved ...

payload bay operations, and the engineering behind heat-resistant windows, this deep dive showcases the genius that made reusable spaceflight possible. What did it take to turn the Space Shuttle ...

The NRO asked that the space shuttle's payload bay be large enough to accommodate any "spacecraft growth," the spy agency expected for their secretive payloads, according to the documents.

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

The first group of Manned Spacecraft Engineers selected for military space shuttle flights ... is long (hence the need for the shuttle’s large payload bay) to listen in on ground communications ...

The Hubble Space Telescope’s remarkably long service ... to provide a means for returning Hubble to Earth in the payload bay of a shuttle, the SCM’s purpose is now to provide an attachment ...

it was understood that most of the components for the orbiting complex would need to fit inside the payload bay of the Space Shuttle. In practice, this meant that Station modules would need to be ...

then being carefully taken out of the payload bay and being moved into place by the shuttle’s robotic arm or the space station’s robotic arm. Although no large additions have yet been made ...

By teaming up with the James Webb Space Telescope, or by scientists delving into its long history of observations, Hubble is ...