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STS-41C
First on-orbit satellite repair mission (Solar Maximum Mission aboard Space Shuttle Challenger); Crippen, Dick Scobee, Terry Hart, George Nelson, James Von Hoften). -
Voyager 2
Voyager 2 encounters Uranus and Neptune. -
Challenger Tragedy
Challenger was destroyed and its crew of seven were killed in an explosion just 73 seconds into the flight. Investigators found the explosion was caused by a leak in one of two Solid Rocket Boosters, which ignited the main liquid fuel tank. -
The Galileo Project
launched in 1989 aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, studied Jupiter and its moons, finding warm ice, water and icebergs on the moon Europa before ending its mission in 2003. -
Hubble Space Telescope
Space Shuttle Discovery and orbits 600 kilometers (375 miles) above Earth, working around the clock to unlock the secrets of the universe. It uses excellent pointing precision, powerful optics, and state-of-the-art instruments to provide stunning views of the universe that cannot be made using ground-based telescopes or other satellites. -
Chandra X-ray Observatory, the High-energy Universe
In 1999, NASA launched the most sensitive X-ray telescope in the world. It can see things no one has ever seen before, such as the split second when space particles disappear into a black hole. -
Ulysses
Ulysses mission was to look at the sun and obseerve the suns gravitational pulls. The over all mission was to characterize the heliosphere as a function of solar latitude. The significance of Ulysses is that it gave NASA more information on what the fuction of the solar latitude of the sun so we can do farther research on the sun with what we have. -
First Flight Of The F-18
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center used an F-18 HARV (High Alpha Research Vehicle) to study airflow, aircraft control and engine performance at steep flight angles by using spoon-shaped paddles on the rear of the engine. -
First Flight Of Endeavor
the record-setting mission included four spacewalks, including the first by three astronauts. It was also the first shuttle mission requiring three rendezvous with an orbiting spacecraft, and the first use of a drag chute during a shuttle landing. -
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The Shuttle-Mir Experience
NASA shuttles made 11 flights to the Russian space station Mir, and American astronauts spent seven residencies onboard. Shuttles also conducted crew exchanges and delivered supplies and equipment, setting the stage for the cooperation that would build the International Space Station. -
Solar Research: An Uninterrupted View Of The Sun
SOHO is designed to study the internal structure of the sun, its extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind, the stream of highly ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the solar system. -
The Longest Stay In Space
When Shannon Lucid launched from the Kennedy Space Center on March 22, 1996 she had no idea that she'd be making history. By the time she returned from a 188 day stint on the Russian space station Mir, Lucid had set a new record for an American living in space and broke the world's record for a woman living in space. -
Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST)
"FAST" was in the process of studing the Earths Auroa's. It helped scientists figure out question like what causes aurora's? FASt took snapshots of the aurora's and sent them back to earth to NASA. The sigificance of this mission was to help the sciencists answer questions they had about aurora's. -
Mars Pathfinder
The Mars Pathfinder arrived at the red planet on July 4, 1997. It eventually sent back 2.6 billion bits of data, including 16,000 lander images and 550 images from the rover, Sojourner. -
International Space Station, Living in Space
Missions to space lasting several weeks can achieve some amazing results. We can reach the moon, service satellites and telescopes and test all sorts of equipment. But here's the thing: Exploring other planets, or what's beyond our solar system, is going to require serious time -- months, even years. The human body isn't designed to live in space. So getting us to the point of exploring farther than ever before requires long-term tests on the effects of space life on the human body. That's wh -
Solar Power Flight: Pathfinder Plus/ Helios
The Pathfinder-Plus solar powered aircraft set a new altitude record of 80,201 feet in 1998. Another unique solar-powered flying wing called Helios soared to 96,863 feet in 2001. -
John Glenn’s Return To Space
The first American to orbit the Earth returned to space in 1998 aboard the shuttle Discovery.
John Glenn, a former U.S. senator and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, served as a test subject for experiments on the effects of aging. -
Largest Ever Ozone Hole
On September 3, 2000 a NASA spectrometer detected an Antarctic ozone "hole" three times larger than the entire land mass of the United States -- the largest such area ever. The "hole" had expanded to approximately 11 million square miles beating the previous record of approximately 10.5 million square miles measured in September 1998. -
Columbia Loss
The Space Shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts were lost on February 1, 2003 when the orbiter broke up over north central Texas during reentry. Columbia was returning from a 16-day scientific research mission, and was 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center when flight controllers at Mission Control in Houston lost contact with the vehicle. -
Phoenix Mars Lander
The Phoenix Mars Lander's mission was to check the planet's carbon dioxide, They found out that about 95 percent of the Martian atmosphere is carbon dioxide. The sigifiace of this mission is that it found information that we as humans can't yet do. -
Robonaut 2
Robonaut 2's mission was to help out the astronauts in the space station. Robonaut was used as a helping hand. The signifiance of this mission was that if astronauts cant get something done or need extra help Robonaut is there to help.
