An old NASA video (see below) has been restored with better sound and video recently that shows what passed for a giant computer in 1986. The Cray 2 runs at 250 MHz and had two gigabytes of memory ...
Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope, was closely observed in 1986 during a five-day flyby by NASA’s Voyager ...
William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...
NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...
William R. Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the nation’s first satellite as well as its first space station, and who later shouldered part of the blame for the 1986 explosion that ...
William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...
He was 102. Lucas served as the fourth director of the Huntsville-based space flight center, from June 1974 to July 1986. According to his biography on the NASA website, Lucas “was instrumental ...
From left, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee. NASA holds a Day of Remembrance every year in late January or early February because, though decades apart, the agencies ...