Challenger space shuttle explosion: Remembering disaster 39 years later
It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...
Meet the San Diego team that wrapped the Space Shuttle Endeavour like a giant bubble for ...
Space Shuttle Endeavour will be hoisted into the air and delicately placed into upright launch-ready position at the ...
How NASA Space Shuttle Tiles Work To Protect Against Extreme Heat
A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere ... while black goes on the bottom surfaces for maximum ...
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Endeavour: NASA's youngest space shuttle
Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...
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A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...
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The space shuttle
STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...