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The space shuttle era draws to a close with the successful launch of shuttle Atlantis
July 6, 2011 |
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Los Angeles, New York City, Virginia and Florida will each get a spacecraft from the shuttle program
The shuttle is preparing for an early-morning landing on July 21
In countdown-clock time, 43 hours really means 70 hours
When Atlantis returns home, it will mark the end of the post-lunar-landing era in U.S. spaceflight--and an interruption in American-made access to space
Any summary of the shuttle program would not be complete without mentioning 14 lost astronauts and two doomed vehicles
The delivery into orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope, considered one of NASA's greatest science achievements, stands out
With Endeavour enduring multiple scrubbed launches because of storms, why does the U.S. choose to launch from Florida?
When Discovery touches down, it will become the first of NASA's three remaining space shuttles to enter retirement. Where will they all end up?
The experiment was a precursor to Phobos-LIFE, which will examine the effects of the space environment, particularly radiation, on organisms traveling through interplanetary space for nearly three years
This launch is important and historic because it marks the end, not the beginning of an era of U.S. human space exploration
If I'd jumped, I could have touched the belly of the Discovery. Of course, I would have then been escorted unceremoniously from the Orbiter Processing Facility. But I was that close
Space shuttle Atlantis will haul supplies and a robotic experiment to the International Space Station for its final flight
They don't call this area the Space Coast for nothing. It is Disneyland for space geeks. I'd think that if the whole nation had this enthusiasm, I'd be reporting from Mars today
Just got back from the launch pad--and just in time, seems lightning hit within a third of a mile from the shuttle. Mother Nature is stealing the show
While waiting on a go/no-go decision, I decided to take a field trip thrown by the people at SpaceX, the builders of the Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule, slated to carry cargo--and later up to seven crew members--to the space station
The space shuttle Endeavour took off on its final flight Monday morning at 8:56 A.M. Eastern time on May 16
It took space shuttle Discovery several months to get off the ground on its final mission, but the shuttle's landing came off without a hitch
Pres. Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2010 threw White House support behind one of the more controversial NASA plans of the Bush era: retiring the space shuttle in 2010
On the eve of the launch of the penultimate space shuttle mission, STS-134, Scientific American astronomy editor George Musser talks to veteran astronaut Stanley Love about being in space and the future of spaceflight
NASA’s original plan was to usher in an efficient, make-America-proud kind of space program to follow Apollo. But the promise of glorious spaceflight Americans came to expect never materialized
Conversations between guest blogger Susanna Speier and her father spanned space, time, elliptical orbits and the outer reaches of the solar system
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