history of space-shuttle program
...After the accident, the shuttle fleet was grounded until September 1988 to allow NASA to correct the design flaws and implement associated administrative changes in the shuttle program. In 1992, Endeavour, a replacement orbiter for the destroyed Challenger, flew its first mission.
repair of Hubble Space Telescope
...to produce fuzzy rather than sharp images. The HST also developed problems with its gyroscopes and with its solar-power arrays. On December 2–13, 1993, a mission of the NASA space shuttle Endeavour sought to correct the telescope’s optical system and other problems. In five space walks, the shuttle astronauts replaced the HST’s wide-field planetary camera and installed a new...
After the accident, the shuttle fleet was grounded until September 1988. A replacement orbiter, Endeavour, was built, but, upon the resumption of flights, the shuttle fleet was operated with much greater assurances for the safety of its crew. This limited the flight rate to six to eight missions per year; the 100th shuttle flight was not achieved until October 2000.
...mission in October 1989, which deployed the Galileo spacecraft that explored Jupiter, and the June 2002 flight of Endeavour, during which he participated in three space walks to help repair the robotic arm of the International Space Station. Chang-Díaz was a visiting scientist (1983–93) at...
American physician and the first African American woman to become an astronaut. In 1992 she spent more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour.
...STS-60, a mission on the Discovery space shuttle lasting eight days. He flew for a fourth time in space in 1998 as a mission specialist aboard STS-88, during which the Endeavour space shuttle visited the International Space Station (ISS). The flight lasted 12 days. His fifth space mission was in 2000–01, when he served as flight engineer on Soyuz TM-31 as...
...was originally scheduled for launch in November 2003 but was delayed for several years after the Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003. Morgan finally flew into space on the space shuttle Endeavour on Aug. 8, 2007, on STS-118. The mission was an assembly-and-repair trip to the International Space Station (ISS). Morgan operated the shuttle’s and station’s robotic arms to install...