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STS-63. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

STS-63. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Launch: February 3, 1995.Landing: February 11, 1995 Kennedy Space Center, Fl..Astronauts: James D. Wetherbee, Eileen M. Collins, C. Michael Foale, Janice E. Voss, Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Vladimar G. Titov.Sp... More

With the assistance of a suit technician, STS-84 Pilot Eileen Marie Collins finishes donning her launch and entry suit in the Operations and Checkout Building in preparation for her second Space Shuttle flight. She was the first woman Shuttle pilot on STS-63 in 1995, which was the first approach and flyaround of the Russian Space Station Mir by the Space Shuttle. Collins and six other crew members will depart shortly for Launch Pad 39A, where the Space Shuttle Atlantis awaits liftoff during an approximate 7-minute launch window which opens at about 4:08 a.m. This will be the sixth docking of the Space Shuttle with the Mir. The exact liftoff time will be determined about 90 minutes prior to launch, based on the most current location of Mir KSC-97PC793

With the assistance of a suit technician, STS-84 Pilot Eileen Marie Co...

With the assistance of a suit technician, STS-84 Pilot Eileen Marie Collins finishes donning her launch and entry suit in the Operations and Checkout Building in preparation for her second Space Shuttle flight.... More

Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle Projects

Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle Projects

Crew members assigned to the STS-63 mission included (front left to right) Janice E. Voss, mission specialist; Eileen M. Collins, pilot; (the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle), James D. Wetherbee, commander... More

LOUISVILLE, Colo. – During NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 CCDev2) activities for the Commercial Crew Program CCP, Sierra Nevada Corp. SNC delivered the primary structure of its Dream Chaser flight test vehicle to the company’s office in Louisville, Colo. SNC engineers currently are assembling the full-scale prototype, which includes the integration of secondary structures and subsystems. This all-composite structure of the company's planned winged spacecraft, the Dream Chaser, will be used to carry out several remaining CCDev2 milestones including a captive carry flight and the first approach and landing test of the spacecraft. During the captive carry flight, a carrier aircraft will the Dream Chaser vehicle over NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif. Sierra Nevada is one of seven companies NASA entered into Space Act Agreements SAAs with during CCDev2 to aid in the innovation and development of American-led commercial capabilities for crew transportation and rescue services to and from the International Space Station and other low Earth orbit destinations. For information about CCP, visit www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew. Photo credit: Sierra Nevada Corp. KSC-2012-1308

LOUISVILLE, Colo. – During NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo. – During NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 CCDev2) activities for the Commercial Crew Program CCP, Sierra Nevada Corp. SNC delivered the primary structure of its Dream Chaser flight t... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-63 Mission Specialist Dr. Bernard Harris autographs copies of the crew photograph in the Training Auditorium during a March crew visit to thank employees for their help in ensuring a successful mission.  The six-member crew on Discovery, who landed February 11 after an eight-day flight, included Mission Commander James Wetherbee, Pilot Eileen Collins (on the first flight of a female Shuttle pilot), and Mission Specialists Michael Foale, Janice Voss and Vladimir Titov.  The mission featured another milestone, the first approach and flyaround of a Shuttle with Russian Space Station Mir.    It was also the second flight of a russian cosmonaut on Shuttle and the third flight of the SPACEHAB module, which carried 20 experiments in biotechnology, advanced materials development, technology demonstrations and other measurements. KSC-95PC-0439

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-63 Mission Specialist Dr. Bernard Ha...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-63 Mission Specialist Dr. Bernard Harris autographs copies of the crew photograph in the Training Auditorium during a March crew visit to thank employees for their help in ensu... More

Hoss Trading Days Revived. One of the livestock markets in Montenegro during a busy hour. Business is done in true Oriental fashion, the traders letting the prospective purchaser make the first approach. No effort is made to drum up trade it's not the Montenegrin way. This livestock is driven in for miles and respresents about all that the invading army left in the district. The shortage of cows proved serious to infant welfare of the country. American doctors and nurses finding thousands of undernourished women and children. To meet this emergency the Red Cross distributed tons of condensed milk and food along with its other relief supplies

Hoss Trading Days Revived. One of the livestock markets in Montenegro ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: Markets, Montenegro. On caption card: (1/1392) Used in... More

First Approach to Yahoo Falls - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

First Approach to Yahoo Falls - Public Domain image, National Parks Ga...

2016 Photo Contest Winner KY Landscapes Category Picryl description: Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.