On July 12, 1989, the European Space Agency launched an experimental communications satellite named Olympus-1. It was the ...

On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the ...

On Dec. 9, 2006, the first-ever Swedish astronaut launched to the International Space Station. Arne Christer Fuglesang flew on the space shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist for mission STS-116.

On June 26, 1954, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics – basically pre-1958 NASA – moved their headquarters to a brand new facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California. More ...