On 5 June 1983, space shuttle Enterprise touched down at Stansted airport as part of a European tour that also took in Germany, France and Italy. Crowds of 200,000 people turned out to watch the ...

The decades-long quest to build a reusable space shuttle tested ... “Less a vehicle to the stars than a lift to the airport,” Hersch writes of the shuttle’s ambitions. But soon, politics ...

The final journey for the last space ... The shuttle received rock star treatment upon its arrival, with people lining the streets to watch the craft move from Los Angeles International Airport ...

the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the Soviet Union and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in the United States. The British journalist Adam Higginbotham wrote about Chernobyl in his ...