On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed! [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Hubble is famous for taking some of the most amazing deep-space photos ever. It hitched a ...

Former astronaut Bruce McCandless II, a retired Navy captain and son of a Medal of Honor winner who joined NASA during the buildup to the Apollo program, served as capsule communicator when Neil ...