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Houston, you’ve got a space shuttle… only NASA won’t say which one
The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency’s retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be ...
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Why the Soviet Buran Only Launched Once – The Shuttle That Beat NASA But Died Silent
The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior ...
The First Soda in Space: When NASA Got Caught Up in the Cola Wars
In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over ...
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SpaceX launches Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for NASA on milestone Crew Dragon flight (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 11:43 a.m. EDT ...
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Christa McAuliffe’s Life Ended in Tragedy on the ‘Challenger’ Shuttle. Here’s How the High School Teacher Was Chosen for the Ill-Fated Flight
NASA’s “Teacher in Space” added joy to many Americans’ lives and increased excitement for the future of spaceflight, though ...
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OTD In Space - July 26: Space Shuttle Returns To Flight With STS-114
On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first "Return to Flight" mission following the Columbia ...
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NASA Reschedules Space Shuttle Return to Flight Briefing
John Casper, manager, Space Shuttle Management Integration and Planning Video b-roll of NASA’s Shuttle Return to Flight activities during the past year will precede the briefing and air on NASA ...
Pittsburgh-area native piloting SpaceX flight to International Space Station
A Pittsburgh-area native is piloting the SpaceX Falcon 9 flight to the International Space Station. A crew of four rocketed ...
SpaceX punches through Crew-11 launch while NASA mulls space station commitment
SpaceX was back one day after a weather-related scrub and threaded the needle amid threatening clouds to send up the Crew-11 ...
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Dream Chaser: NASA’s Next-Generation Space Shuttle—Will It Ever Launch?
The Space Shuttle era ended with Atlantis’s final flight on July 21, 2011, closing a major chapter in space exploration. For years after, American astronauts depended on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft to ...
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NASA Celebrates 25th Anniversary of First Shuttle Flight
NASA today launches a series of events to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight. On April 12, 1981, shuttle Columbia lifted off with Commander John Young and pilot ...
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NASA Delays Shuttle Flight Again, Until July
NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin announced yesterday that the agency is delaying the flight of the space shuttle Discovery until July so engineers can modify the external fuel tank to prevent ...