On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101. NASA ...
Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...
Col. Terry J. Hart, currently a Lehigh University professor of mechanical engineering, on board the Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41C in April 1984. He's launched into orbit, flown high-speed fighter ...