Space Shuttle program

Events (18)

• 1981

  11/12 — Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

• 1982

  3/30 — Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

• 1983

  6/18 — Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

• 1984

  2/3 — Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.

• 1984

  2/7 — Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).

• 1986

  1/12 — Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Payload Specialist.

• 1986

  1/28 — Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.

• 1989

  8/8 — Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.

• 1990

  4/24 — STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

• 1990

  11/15 — Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.

• 1992

  1/22 — Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.

• 1993

  1/13 — Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

• 1993

  12/2 — Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

• 1995

  2/3 — Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

• 1995

  6/29 — Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

• 1996

  1/11 — Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.

• 2005

  7/26 — Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

• 2011

  7/21 — NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.