Twenty-five years ago, Bob Cabana was at the aft flight deck controls of the space shuttle Endeavour when he fired the orbiter’s thrusters to connect a U.S.-built node with a Russian module in Earth orbit.
The burst closed the short distance between “Unity” and “Zarya,” giving birth to the International Space Station (ISS).
“I cannot believe it was 25 years ago today that we grappled Zarya and joined it with the Unity node,” said Cabana, now NASA‘s outgoing associate administrator, in a call to the space station’s 70th expedition crew from the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday (Dec. 6). “Absolutely amazing.”
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