Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a Manned Maneuvering Unit outside the United States Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Challenger | Challenger in 1984.

* 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) takes place-the STS-1 mission.

* 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.

* 1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

* 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

In July 2011, after returning the piece of debris at NASA's request, the sixteen-year-old Schanze was given an all-access tour of the Kennedy Space Center as well as VIP seating for the launch of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.

* Space Shuttle Avionics

Space Shuttle Atlantis | Space Shuttle Atlantis on a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

* 1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Shuttle mission STS-31 lifts off, carrying Hubble Space Telescope | Hubble into orbit.

Image: Pegasus_barge_being_moved_by_Freedom_Star_and_towboat_American_2. jpg | Barge carrying the Space Shuttle external tank for STS-119 under tow to Port Canaveral, Florida, United States

STS-51-F ( also known as Spacelab 2 ) was the nineteenth flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

* 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

* Deep Space 1 Mission Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration

* 1984 – 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 ).

* 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission ( Atlantis ) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

* 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

* 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

* 1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.

* 1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

* Data collected from the Space Fence's sensors would potentially feed into the Joint Space Operations Center Mission System, which is used to track objects orbiting the Earth, monitor space weather and assess foreign launches.

The World Showcase usually opens two hours after park opening and remains open later than the Future World section of the park ; however, most major attractions in Future World including Test Track, Soarin ', Mission Space, The Seas with Nemo and Friends, and Spaceship Earth remain open until park close.

* October 9, 2003: Mission: Space opens

* Official Space Shuttle Mission Archives

* The popular Epcot ride, Mission Space, takes place this year.

The inclinations and hence true masses for almost all the exoplanets will eventually be measured by the number of observatories in space, including the Gaia mission, Space Interferometry Mission, and James Webb Space Telescope.

Watson was the Director of the Science Division and Chief Scientist for the Office of Mission to Planet Earth at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ).

Rotating devices such as centrifuges used in astronaut training and amusement park rides such as the Rotor, Mission: Space and the Gravitron can cause motion sickness in many people.

Elevation data used in this image were acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on Feb. 11, 2000.

In 2007, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported a total of six aircraft in service: one Antonov An-32 tactical transport, one Cessna 421 Golden Eagle utility aircraft, two Eurocopter SA 365 Dauphin helicopters, one Gulfstream IV VIP aircraft, and one Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter.

* Lipartito, Kenneth and Butler, Orville R. A History of the Kennedy Space Center ( 2007 )

Animals In Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle, 2007.

* hosted the Mars Track of the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference in 2007

* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).

He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and his recent works include Neon ( 2004 ), a non-game music visualization program that has been built into the Xbox 360 console, and the video games Space Giraffe ( Xbox Live Arcade, 2007 and PC, 2008 ), and Space Invaders Extreme ( Xbox Live Arcade, May 2009 ).

In 2007 Minter released Space Giraffe, an action video game with similarities to Tempest.

* Space Giraffe ( Xbox 360, 2007 ; PC, 2008 )

* Space Daily-Engineers Create Optical Cloaking Design For Invisibility, April, 2007

He and Page are also the executive producers of the 2007 film Broken Arrows. In June 2008, Brin invested $ 4. 5 million in Space Adventures, the Virginia-based space tourism company.

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.

Barbara Morgan, McAuliffe's backup, became a professional astronaut in January 1998 and flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-118, to the International Space Station, on August 8, 2007, aboard Endeavour, the orbiter that replaced Challenger.

The year 2007 saw the creation of Bernhard's show Plan B from Outer Space as well as Indie label upstart Breaking Records release of the compilation " Breaking For the Holidays " where Bernhard co-penned Miracle of Lights with Mitchell Kaplan.

* Space Academy — The Complete Series January 16, 2007

* Town of Russell, Massachusetts Draft Open Space and Recreation Plan Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, 2007.

Space Shuttle Atlantis being shuttled through Offutt following a mission on July 1, 2007.

In 2007, his song, " A Funky Space Reincarnation ", was used in the Charlize Theron-starred ad for Dior J ' Adore perfume.

* Christian Fuchs ( 2007 ) Transnational Space and the ’ Network Society ’.

On November 8, 2007, the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing to examine the status of NASA's Near-Earth Object survey program.

In a 2007 interview with iF magazine, George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series and its films, described Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as representing the " polar opposite " of Gene Roddenberry's vision and philosophy of the future.