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You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program.

In operation for 30 years, NASA's space shuttle was described by the space agency as "the world's first reusable spacecraft" and was "launched like a rocket, maneuvered in Earth orbit like a ...

The assembly will begin with the solid rocket boosters, then the external fuel tank, then the shuttle, completing what’s known as a full space shuttle stack. It’ll be the first time a shuttle ...

The assembly of an upright display of the space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center was another step closer to completion Saturday, as crews lifted a massive external fuel tank into ...

A massive orange fuel tank was slowly moved about 1,000 ... launch-ready display of the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center. Moving the tank, known as ET-94, was a delicate ...

NASA says it will fill up the space shuttle Atlantis’ fuel tank next week to diagnose a fuel-gauge problem that led to back-to-back launch delays. Next Tuesday's tanking test could lead to a ...

The sensors act as fuel gauges that notify the shuttle ... “We didn’t find any smoking gun,” said Bill Parsons, manager of the space shuttle program. “At this point, the conclusion ...

As an example, this incredible time-lapse video shows the space shuttle Atlantis being lifted and then mated with its solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank for the very last shuttle flight ...

For the second space shuttle disaster (Columbia in 2003), the ... And that's why hydrogen has always been the preferred fuel for that. If you are not interested in reusability (like SLS since ...

Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off at 10:39 a.m. Jan ... the result of a chunk of insulating foam that had broken off from the external fuel tank and hit the left wing of the orbiter during ...