In 1986, NASA's Solar System Exploration Committee (SSEC) published its report Planetary Exploration through Year 2000: An Augmented Program. Leading the pack of proposed advanced robotic planetary ...
Sally Ride was a member of the 1978 astronaut class, the first selected for Space Shuttle flights. On mission STS-7 (18-24 June 1983), she became the first American woman in space. Ride flew one more ...
The NASA photo reveals the Supernova 197A surrounded by red, glowing clouds of hydrogen gas. Supernova 1987a is a Type II supernova located in the Magellanic Cloud, which is a satellite galaxy to the ...