TLDR The Space Shuttle program flew 135 missions between 1981 and 2011, using five orbiters (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour)…
Seven people went up on Space Shuttle Columbia on January 16, 2003. Sixteen days later, sixteen minutes before they were…
First, a terminology fix that trips up almost everyone searching for this: Russia doesn’t send “astronauts” to space. It sends…
Eight astronauts from Oklahoma have flown in space. Not nine, not “the most of any state” — eight men and…
Three men born in Mississippi have flown into space. That’s the whole list. But “only three” undersells it, because one…
Before any human set foot on the Moon, seven robots had to prove it wouldn’t swallow them. That was the…