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- “Hail Columbia” Fri, 3 Feb 23, 1:00pmFebruary 1, 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of the tragic loss of STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven brave astronauts.
- Lockheed to turn shuttle-era module into a space habitat for NASA Tue, 25 Jul 17, 12:50amDeep space missions in the future will take humanity farther and farther away from Earth. Last year NASA chose six United States companies to develop deep space habitat prototypes as part of the Next Space Technologies for...
- Ride the Space Shuttle into space, on the outside of the booster no less Sun, 28 Jul 13, 9:58amIf you are a space enthusiast, this is well worth 400 seconds of your time for the unique perspective it offers…like strapping a HERO Go Pro camera to a booster and getting it back...
- 400 Trees Cut Down to Make Way For Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Los Angeles Arrival Thu, 6 Sep 12, 3:40amEver since the Space Shuttle fleet was retired last year, several spacecraft have gone to new homes for the public to enjoy. Their journeys have often been spectacular, such as the Enterprise flying over New York and Discovery...
- How We Nearly Lost Discovery Thu, 19 Apr 12, 7:54amReblogged from Wayne Hale's Blog: Now that Discovery is safely delivered to the Smithsonian, I think I can tell the story of how we nearly lost her in July of 2005, and how well intentioned, highly motivated, hard...
- Space Shuttle Program Officially Retired, Millions of Gallons of Fuel to Be Saved Fri, 22 Jul 11, 1:00amSpace Shuttle Atlantis made its final landing today at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Florida officially marking the end of NASA’s 30 year-long space shuttle program that included 5 vessels, 135 missions and millions...