On Dec. 4, 1998, space shuttle Endeavour became the first shuttle to visit the International Space Station (ISS), carrying the American-built Unity module. Unity was joined to the Russian Zarya ...
a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip, called the R-bar Pitch Manoeuvre or Rendezvous Pitch Manoeuvre (RPM), to allow the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to inspect ...
The shuttle program is best remembered for launching satellites, visiting Mir and building the International Space Station. However, there were thousands upon thousands of hours of science ...
After a gap of more than a year, NASA successfully resumed spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Thursday. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams, dressed in pressurized NASA ...