John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle ...

Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he’d been gone from NASA ...

Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

She told Extra that the "intention" of the mission was "to figure out a way to harness the waste here and put it in space to make the Earth a better place." "Every time a flight goes up ...

Nguyen worked on the last NASA space shuttle. The way the press covered ... a Mercury capsule for a successful 17-minute suborbital flight. I don’t think he was ever referred to as Astronaut ...

Harris was the designated Payload Commander on Space Shuttle Mission STS-63, which began on February 3, 1995, and lasted nine days. This was the second flight of the American-Russian Space Program ...

But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem, giving Hubble the far-reaching 20/20 ...

Veteran astronaut Don Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of research and captured over half a million photos during his ISS ...

all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven to have ...

Hubble maintenance and legacy Throughout her career, de Groh was fortunate enough to have worked in different capacities on all five of the Space Shuttle Hubble Space Telescope service missions.