On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was the second time the Spacelab went to space and the first time it flew ...

A Spacelab module was even flown as a cargo carrier to the Russian space station, Mir, during the first space shuttle-Mir docking mission in the Shuttle-Mir Program.

Like Spacelab, the Columbus module and other major "rooms" built for the International Space Station in Europe were constrained in size by the dimensions of the shuttle's cargo hold, whereas I-Hab ...

Today, the Spacelab module that first flew on Columbia in 1983 is displayed by the Smithsonian at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center located outside Washington, D.C.

The Shenzhou spacecraft and the two Tiangong spacelab modules are critical elements of China’s Project 921, which is aimed at perfecting low-Earth orbit space transportation, rendezvous and ...

We’ll try and incorporate and see if we can commercialize this tech.” SpaceLab is a small, 3U CubeSat that’s two-parts experiment payload and one-part interfacing bus.

Space history was made on Tuesday. Two pieces of Spacelab were placed back together at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center as part of the Astro Restoration Project.

— The Man-Machine track "Spacelab," a song released 20 years before the ISS' first module was launched, in 1998. The time lag makes for a few hiccups, but honestly, how many of us can say we've ...

Spacelab's legacy Today, the Spacelab module that first flew on Columbia in 1983 is displayed by the Smithsonian at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center located outside ...