This marked the only shuttle landing at White Sands. First American woman in space: STS-7 (Challenger) The launch of Challenger on June 18, 1983, marked a pivotal milestone: Sally Ride became the ...

It was the second, the Columbia, that had the honor of being the first space shuttle to launch into orbit. It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first ...

The Starship system is designed to be fully reusable and aims to become a new method of flying cargo and people beyond Earth.

Shuttle flights had become fairly routine at this point. But this mission would be the last successful mission before the disastrous launch of Space Shuttle Challenger just a few days after ...