Topic: History

STS-106 Mission Highlights

STS-106’s mission to the 143-foot-long station focused on unloading nearly three tons of cargo from the orbiter and a Progress supply craft already docked to the opposite end of the […]

STS-113 Mission Highlights

STS-113 dropped off the Expedition Six crew members at the orbital outpost, and brought back the Expedition Five crew at mission’s end. During the 14-day mission, the combined Endeavour and […]

STS-108 Mission Highlights

In December 2001, the space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station during the STS-108 mission. The primary goals for the four-member shuttle crew of astronauts Dominic L. Gorie, […]

STS-61C Mission Highlights

STS-61C was the 24th mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. STS-65 marked second flight of International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2), carrying more than […]

STS-112 Mission Highlights

Primary payloads for STS-112 were the S1 integrated truss segment and the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid Cart A. The CETA is the first of two human-powered carts that will […]

Space for Women

This film contains interviews with women employed in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) space transportation program and shows the variety of positions held by women in the agency. […]