On May 3, 1986, NASA attempted to launch a new weather satellite called GOES-G for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
On April 28, 2001, the world's first space tourist hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian…
On April 27, 1961, NASA launched Explorer 11, a satellite that contained the first gamma ray telescope to go to…
On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed! Hubble is famous for taking some of the most amazing…
On April 24, 1970, China became the fifth nation to independently launch a satellite into orbit. Dong Fang Hong I…
On April 19, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1. This space station was a…