Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of their Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope ... conduct a destructive, tail first, re-entry over the Pacific ...

NASA The giant gold and silver satellite glittered against the black sky as space shuttle Atlantis closed in on ... of STS-27 had been to deploy the first in a series of new spy satellites that ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

Today (July 8) at 11:26 a.m. EST, the Atlantis space shuttle is scheduled for the last-ever NASA shuttle launch, ending a program that sent five shuttles on 134 missions to space. This final mission ...

However, if you examine the history of the space agency, it becomes clear that the reality is more complicated. SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch ... and NASA's first crop of astronauts ...