Space Shuttle Discovery

Joe Engle, X-15 rocket plane and space shuttle astronaut, dies at 91

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Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly into space in two separate spacecraft, has died at the age of 91. Engle’s death was announced Wednesday (July 10) in a public post by his family on Facebook. “Blessed with natural flying skills, General Joe, as he was known by many, was happiest in a cockpit,” the … Read more

Thirty years ago, astronauts saved the Hubble Space Telescope

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It’s been about 30 years since NASA astronauts… Hubble Space Telescope on an extremely daring mission. At the time, it was perhaps the most daring mission scientists had conceived. In short, Hubble was launched in 1990 with defective optics that produced blurry images. Fortunately, however, there is the space telescope that orbits the Earth Soil, … Read more