Despite careful housekeeping, Spacelab crew members had to continue their scientific research Thursday amid more floating animal food and feces. One of two monkeys in the lab also was reported still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth can be seen behind the open bay of a white space shuttle. A legacy of European-built and operated space modules, which began ...

It doesn't seem out of place today, but the sight 30 years ago of a cylindrical module mounted inside the space shuttle's cargo bay was described as an "odd-appearing assemblage" in 1983. Subscribe to ...

Thirty years ago this week the first European-built Spacelab was launched on the Space Shuttle. ESA’s first astronaut, Ulf Merbold, flew on the mission, marking ESA’s entry into human spaceflight. On ...

On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. [‘On ...