A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...

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The three parts that made up the space shuttle were the orbiter - the part that resembled an aeroplane, the large orange external tank and the 2 solid rocket boosters.

Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2) ... Commander Hoot Gibson reacted to that first view: ... Rivers of 3,000-degree ionized plasma washed over the front windows, ...

The space shuttle Endeavour began the first part of its journey to its final resting place Thursday, an effort more than a decade in the making after arriving at the California Science Center ...

The space shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.

Sunday marks 38 years since the space shuttle Challenger lifted off on a chilly Florida morning and passed into history when the ship carrying seven astronauts -- one the first “civilian” in ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The world was shocked and saddened 39 years ago after the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy. WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS. The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ...

5, 4, 3, 2, 1: See Space Shuttle Endeavour before it goes off-view ‘for several years' The celebrated spacecraft will be moved to a new pavilion now under construction at its longtime home, the ...

The crew of Space Shuttle Columbia's mission STS-107. Seated in front (L to R): Rick D. Husband, mission commander; Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; and William C. McCool, pilot.

View Superb view of the payload bay of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-43) in front of a magnificent globe shining in all its blue light during the extraction of a satellite (TDRS-E) from the ...