The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [1]

STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program.

2018年8月30日 · On September 5, the crew fired Challenger ’s engines to return to Earth, and made the first night landing of the Shuttle program at Edwards Air Force Base in California, having completed 98 orbits around the Earth in 6 days, 1 hour and 9 minutes.

2023年9月1日 · On Aug. 30, Challenger and its crew thundered into the night sky at KSC, only the second night launch in the American human space flight program – the first was Apollo 17 in 1972.

2010年2月21日 · Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts are back on Earth. The shuttle landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Sunday night, wrapping up a successful two-week mission.

Video courtesy NASA. Space Shuttle Discovery Night Launch STS-128http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts128/main/index.html Click to s...

2010年2月8日 · Space shuttle Endeavour pierced the pre-dawnsky over Florida on Monday, creating an artificial sunrise for what is expectedto be the last time. With just four shuttle missions remaining after...

2010年2月10日 · The last planned night launch of the space shuttle program, seen from the NASA Causeway. The shuttle Endeavour lifts off on the STS-130 mission to deliver the node 'Tranquility' and Cupola...

2006年12月7日 · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – For the first time in more than four years, a NASA space shuttle Discovery is poised to light up the night sky in an evening launch bound for the International Space...

2010年1月6日 · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After reaching its launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Wednesday, space shuttle Endeavour now awaits its next major milestone for the upcoming STS-130 mission.