The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off yesterday afternoon for a risky but important trip to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is farther away and harder to dock with than the international space station, where the space shuttle usually goes. On the 11-day mission, astronauts aboard Atlantis are scheduled to do five space walks to give t

American astronaut Hajdemari Stefanishin-Pajper (Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper), wasted during an exit in a free space a bag with tools, has promised, that the such will not repeat any more.

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Astronaut Ron Garan works on assigned tasks during the last scheduled spacewalk of the STS-124 mission specialist.

Only 73 seconds after lift-off Space Shuttle Challenger exploded - the astronauts were probably still alive and were only killed when impacting the oceans surface.