Knowledge Category: NASA History

History Office presentation highlights master integrator of Gemini, Apollo.

Review board focuses on role of oxygen tank 2 in accident.

Information about the shuttle servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope. Also page provides links to the National Archive for images taken during those shuttle missions.

General information, The Flights of the Space Shuttle : Basic information about each mission in the Space Shuttle and includes a fine collection of materials relating to each Space Shuttle mission including an impressive collection of images.

NASA’s space shuttle fleet — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — flew 135 missions, helped construct the International Space Station and inspired generations.  The final space shuttle mission, STS-135, ended July 21, 2011 when Atlantis rolled to a stop at its home port, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As humanity’s first reusable spacecraft, the space shuttle pushed the bounds of discovery ever farther, requiring not only advanced technologies but the tremendous effort of a vast workforce.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle will transport spare hardware to the outpost and return a station crew member who spent more than two months in space.

The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub.L. 85-568) created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Section 20112 (a)(3) of the Act directs NASA “to provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning NASA activities and the results thereof.” The sharing of information, and our history, has always been, and continues to be, a priority.