The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in April.
Narrator: But the spacesuits NASA currently uses are more than 40 years old. 18 suits were developed for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life ...
On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station ... first-ever strike in space by cutting off communications with NASA when they became overwhelmed with their workload.
He was 102. Lucas served as the fourth director of the Huntsville-based space flight center, from June 1974 to July 1986. According to his biography on the NASA website, Lucas “was instrumental ...