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Despite the Johnson Space Center's central role in America's space program, no shuttle was sent to Space City. That decision ...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...
Endeavour, the so-called jewel of the shuttle fleet that flew 25 missions in space, will be viewable from multiple platforms — including beneath the orbiter’s three main engines as well as ...
The shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth for the final time today (July 21), but the orbiter has one more mission left on its docket — teaching and inspiring the public as a museum showpiece.
In its 30-year history since beginning in 1981, the Space Shuttle Program’s fleet — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour — flew 135 missions, clocking in at a total of ...
(NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011, so using one of the winged orbiters again is not an option.) Loss of institutional knowledge was also an issue; ...
MILES O'BRIEN: The 113th mission of the space shuttle fleet, and the second now to end in catastrophe. That's where I was, covering the disaster on CNN.
After 17 days in space, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up during its return to Earth. The seven astronauts aboard all died: Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, David M. Brown, Laurel Blair ...
Retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau describes the time he picked up a spinning satellite in space known as ...