He flew on a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 22007 and a Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 22012.
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NASA selected Kelly as a space shuttle pilot in 1996, and he took four trips onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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After the space shuttle retired, there were 21.16 RS-225 engines (also known as the space shuttle main engine) left over.
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The Images From India&aposs First Ever Space Shuttle Launch Are AstonishingEarly this morning, India launched its very first reusable space shuttle.
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Ensuring the logomark worked on a space shuttle was trickier.
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This is what I always liked on the Space Shuttle.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger took off on January 28, 1986.
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And as a former NASA astronaut and space shuttle commander.
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He flew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavor in 2008 and 2010.
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It's about what astronauts experienced during a space shuttle launch.
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That toy space shuttle does make a noise at some point.
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I always had people on the Space Shuttle from different countries.
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That's roughly ten times the top speed of the Space Shuttle.
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In comparison, the Space Shuttle had a 1 in 80 chance.
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The liftoff of the Challenger space shuttle on January 28, 1986.
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Later, it was the first space shuttle to launch at night.
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In 2011, the storied space shuttle flew for the last time.
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It launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999.
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Space Shuttle Challenger's lost payload includes the Halley's Comet Experiment Deployable.
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The disaster grounded NASA's space shuttle program for nearly three years.
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But he returned to NASA as the space shuttle era began.
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The space shuttle truck is steeped in history, and some lore.
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The disaster grounded NASA's space shuttle program for nearly three years.
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Atlantis, NASA's last space shuttle, launched and landed in July 2011.
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"The space shuttle never flew autonomous; it never did," said Bridenstine.
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According to David Hitt and Heather R. Smith in Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986, Young learned that Congress had approved funds for the development of NASA' next big project, the Space Shuttle.
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The facility was actively used to coordinate missions from Gemini, through Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs, from its initial test debut in 1965 to its last use in 1992 for Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-53 mission.
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The Apalachin, N.Y. native piloted both the space shuttle Endeavor and Atlantis.
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The space shuttle flew military missions in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Nematodes were the only known survivors of the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
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She's flown on three space shuttle missions: in 2006, 2007 and 2010.
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Since the Space Shuttle has been discontinued, devoted repairs aren't an option.
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The answer dates back to the development of America's Space Shuttle programme.
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It's the aircraft carrier next to the space shuttle and the submarine.
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It was later used to test engines for NASA's space shuttle program.
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Before that, the Space Shuttle program brought astronauts back to NASA airstrips.
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Thirty years ago today, the space shuttle Challenger blasted up towards space.
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NASA was fixated on future projects, such as the space shuttle program.
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Others believe it caused the Columbia space shuttle to destruct in 2003.
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Collins was the first woman to command a NASA space shuttle mission.
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Management and communications problems contributed to both space shuttle accidents, investigators found.
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Massimo was enchanted by astronauts and had his own Space Shuttle uniform.
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She points to Charles Walker, who flew on three space shuttle missions.
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The first launch of the space shuttle in 1981 did carry astronauts.
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That&aposs because NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in July 2011.
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Ronald Reagan postponed his 1986 address after the Challenger space shuttle exploded.
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First there was Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle pilot and commander.
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For context, NASA's space shuttle program carried 833 passengers between 1981 and 2011.
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Then, the anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident is on February 1st.
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Recently it successfully launched both a Mars orbiter and a mini space shuttle.
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A similar scenario played out in 2011, when the Space Shuttle program ended.
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He has flown to space twice before this, both on space shuttle missions.
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The disaster claimed the lives of all seven astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle.
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A replica of the Space Shuttle was made for a former NASA engineer.
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Following the Challenger tragedy, NASA grounded the Space Shuttle program for three years.
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"It's like living in a space shuttle," a friend of his told me.
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The Bowflex Revolution hits home at the end of the Space Shuttle program.
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Today, we remember the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, 31 years later.
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The space agency also stopped sending civilians on potentially dangerous space-shuttle missions.
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It ditches the bike handlebar vibe for something closer to Space Shuttle controls.
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The space shuttle program followed, and the face of the American astronaut changed.
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The now-retired Space Shuttle used to glide in like a massive plane.
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On Saturday, SpaceX and NASA will test a replacement for the space shuttle.
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Ferguson was on the Atlantis for its final flight with the Space Shuttle Program.
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NASA astronaut Tamara Jernigan goes over data aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 25.
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This kind of repair job is actually something NASA's Space Shuttle used to provide.
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We do know from the Space Shuttle program that buckling can occur in COPVs.
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If you think it looks a bit like the Space Shuttle, you're not wrong.
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The space shuttle was the most complex and capable spacecraft ever built and operated.
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Challenger was also the first space shuttle to explode, killing all of its crew.
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John Young commanded the Columbia in the first-ever space shuttle mission in 1981.
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Wouldn't I become extremely close with whomever rode alongside me in the space shuttle?
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Finally, the space shuttle era arrived and with it, women (and toilets!) in space.
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The space shuttle came equipped with this $50,000 toilet called the Waste Collection System.
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NASA's Space Shuttle program launched crews into space for three decades (1981 to 2011).
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In 2003, another seven astronauts died during re-entry aboard the space shuttle Columbia.
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However, there was an error in your explanation of the Columbia space-shuttle tragedy.
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She was one of seven crew members that died when the Challenger space shuttle
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The Washington, DC, Metro stations are known for their unique, space shuttle-esque architecture.
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He has logged more than 2166 days in space across three space shuttle missions.
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NASA also used one as a backup navigational device in its space shuttle program.
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Roughly a decade later, I commanded that same space shuttle on its final flight.
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Dream Chaser is a futuristic-looking, scaled down version of the retired Space Shuttle.
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He worked for Rockwell on the space shuttle program and now for commercial airlines.
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He went to space six times in the Gemini, Apollo & Space Shuttle programs. pic.twitter.
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Pharmaceutical companies have been sending drug research to orbit since the Space Shuttle era.
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Ms. Alling cited the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, caused by negligent management.
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But the space shuttle program was killed and the vehicles now sit in museums.
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Big Bird almost went on the Challenger space shuttle to teach kids about space.
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The California Science Center would be just next door, housing the Endeavor Space Shuttle.
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A custom stand for a US Space Shuttle thermal window, which sold for $845,000.
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Astronaut Eileen Collins Reality Check: Eileen Collins on space shuttle retirement By Lisa Rose, CNN Retired astronaut Eileen Collins noted that Wednesday was the anniversary of the moon landing in 1969 and lamented the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
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Back in 1979 it was ridiculous that a rich man could steal a space shuttle.
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But can she do it before everyone boards the next space shuttle out of there?
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This space shuttle-era computer processor was one of the first created for the program.
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Boe was first selected as an astronaut in 240 and piloted the space shuttle Endeavor.
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Workers here helped built the rockets for the Apollo missions and the space shuttle program.
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NASA's space shuttle Columbia launches on a mission commanded by astronaut Eileen Collins in 1999.
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Glenn even flew on the Space Shuttle in 1998 during his tenure in the Senate.
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No humans have launched from U.S. soil since the space shuttle was retired in 2011.
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Even NASA used up to 24 COPVs on the Space Shuttle to store pressurized gases.
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In the past, NASA astronauts boarded the Space Shuttle only after propellant had been loaded.
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Many of us probably remember set #1682, Space Shuttle Launch, released way back in 1990.
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It will take off from launchpad 39A, which once launched Apollo and Space Shuttle missions.
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When the Space Shuttle launched, it had the help of two white solid rocket boosters.
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Ride is depicted in her blue NASA jumpsuit, with the space shuttle in the background.
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Here's a 1976 landing test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise, which never flew in space.
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However, lighting the cauldron wasn't always a fiery spectacle akin to a space shuttle launch.
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You can't just hop into a space shuttle and take a trip to Mars — yet.
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No humans have launched from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program ended in 23.
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The Space Shuttle landed on long runways, but it could theoretically have used commercial airports.
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Additionally, SpaceX has something the Space Shuttle didn't have: a nearly instantaneous crew abort system.
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He also served on the Rogers Commission, which investigated the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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NASA used the Apollo Mission Control Center until 1992, through all 21 space shuttle missions.
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It's an old Apollo and Space Shuttle launch site that the company leases from NASA.
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It's a former Apollo and Space Shuttle launch site that the company leases from NASA.
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When the space shuttle Challenger exploded, Reagan used a televised address to comfort the nation.
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But President Richard M. Nixon pared back NASA's grand ambitions, leaving just the space shuttle.
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Since then, Federal-Mogul has produced components for boat propellers and a NASA space shuttle.
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During a Space Shuttle mission lasting a week, an astronaut might have received 5.59 mSv.
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In development since 2004, the Dream Chaser looks a lot like a miniature Space Shuttle.
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Reagan's 1986 address was pushed back after the Challenger space shuttle exploded on January 28.
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After that first flight, Challenger flew 85% of all space-shuttle missions during its lifetime.
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In 2014, SpaceX took over a former space shuttle launchpad that NASA no longer needed.
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Hurley piloted two of the space shuttles, including the final space shuttle mission in 2011.
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NASA has been unable to fly humans since the final Space Shuttle retired in 2011.
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The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete.
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On his shirt was a picture of a space shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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It took 43 space shuttle flights and five Russian rockets to launch its various components.
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So spacecraft, spaceflight, spaceship, spacesuit and spacewalk, but space age, space shuttle and space station.
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He helped develop the training protocols for the crews that would fly the space shuttle, and was named Command Pilot for the program's maiden flight with Space Shuttle Columbia in April 1981, where he spent two days in space along with astronaut Robert Crippen.
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So that sound of that space shuttle, being high frequency, cuts like a knife through anything.
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NASA astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot's station in the Space Shuttle Discovery on Feb.
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NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla looks over a procedures checklist aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on Jan.
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Astronauts haven't launched from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle era in 2011.
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When the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, NASA got out of the satellite-launching business.
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This was the large orange tank attached to the bell of the Space Shuttle during launch.
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He flew on two flights of the space shuttle including the final mission, Atlantis's STS-135.
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On the Space Shuttle, for instance, propellant was loaded many hours before crew boarded the vehicle.
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Powerful shock waves rippled throughout Central Florida as the mini-space shuttle returned from its mission.
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In 1981, NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia became the first American spacecraft to launch and land twice.
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BOOKER: Like when the space shuttle exploded, that tragic moment, I know exactly where I was.
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Sadly, the "space shuttle" soundscape didn't transport me to a rocket blasting off toward the cosmos.
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Bose headphones are worn today by professional pilots and have been worn by space shuttle astronauts.
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That includes two Space Shuttle missions, as well as another six-month stay on the station.
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The unmanned X-237B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7:47 a.m.
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On return, it's designed to glide down to a waiting airport, rather like the Space Shuttle.
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She was chosen from 400 applicants at Stanford to apply to NASA for the space shuttle.
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Instead it developed a space shuttle meant to make getting to orbit cheap, reliable and routine.
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The Bears' original White House visit had been canceled because of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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Astronauts from the 2006 Space Shuttle Discovery launch received personalized menus based on their favorite foods.
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The Space Shuttle had two fatal accidents in 135 flights, or a crash rate of 1.5%.
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He's a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions between 1998 and 2009.
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The Industrial Space Facility was stymied by the unexpected high cost of operating the space shuttle.
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Young flew twice to the Moon, walked on its surface & flew the first Space Shuttle mission.
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They compared it to watching the Challenger space shuttle explode or the O.J. Simpson police chase.
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She later worked on the space shuttle program, as well as satellites, before retiring in 1986.
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But the real act of hubris surrounding the space shuttle program came at its very beginning.
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In July 2006, Nowak was part of a 13-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
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Pad 39A was also used for numerous space shuttle missions before that program retired in 2011.
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That was followed by large programs like Skylab, the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.
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Bresnik, 49, last flew on the space shuttle in 2009 during a space station assembly mission.
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Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, astronauts have flown aboard Russian Soyuz.
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That is more than double the record of 8,000 for the first space shuttle class in 1978.
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He went into private business and served as television commentator for early fights of the space shuttle.
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Even the payloads of the 1980s that were placed on the Space Shuttle are tightly guarded secrets.
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NASA made the space shuttle extra big to accommodate the spy satellites Pentagon planners wanted to launch.
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This is the first time this launch complex has been used since the 2011 Space Shuttle launch.
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Glenn was a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery for a nine-day mission in 1998.
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The first space shuttle was built in LA county, as were all four of NASA's Mars Rovers.
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Collins, the first woman space shuttle pilot, is en route to rendezvous with Russia's Mir space station.
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Thanks to the Space Shuttle program, astronauts could service Hubble whenever it was in need of repairs.
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My parents are retired NASA engineers who spent most of their careers on the Space Shuttle program.
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After the Apollo program, LC-22017A became the de facto launch pad for the Space Shuttle era.
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She used her findings to help others understand the risk of flying a space shuttle into space.
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The Chandra X-Ray Observatory went to orbit onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on July 22, 26.
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That would be a huge savings over the Space Shuttle, which was about $21990,233, according to NASA.
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Me watching as the Space Shuttle Atlantis was, in 2010, prepared for one of its final missions.
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NASA initially embarked on this program because the Space Shuttle program was scheduled to end in 2011.
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SpaceX uses a super cool propellant that's much colder than what was used on the Space Shuttle.
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Now it's almost impossible to think of the space shuttle without the word "disaster" coming to mind.
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Winter 1997: Ukranian Leonid Kadenyuk with Brassica Rapa plants grown during 16 days aboard the space shuttle.
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The event also includes access to the Space Shuttle Pavilion, where the Enterprise (sound familiar?) is housed.
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The space shuttle was reusable (sort of), but NASA spent months turning an orbiter around between missions.
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As you'll recall, NASA designed the space shuttle program for reuse, but it didn't save much money.
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Diaz went to space with current NASA administrator Charles Bolden in 1986 on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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Then things grew so fast over 200 years—we went from the wagon to the space shuttle.
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Allen wanted to eventually launch a rocket the size of a NASA space shuttle from the plane.
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He said he's not married to the space shuttle design, and painting the vehicle is an option.
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Her calculations helped send the first American into space and were essential in launching Space Shuttle program.
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NASA eventually solved the O-ring problem, and the space shuttle returned to service in late 1988.
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Big Bird could have been on the Challenger space shuttle when it exploded on January 28, 1986.
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The US has not transported astronauts into space since 2011, when it ended its Space Shuttle program.
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President Reagan didn't point fingers at the NASA engineers when the Challenger space shuttle exploded in flight.
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"The space shuttle, in 2010 dollars, cost between $35 [billion] and $40 billion to develop," Ferguson said.
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Bridenstine said NASA&aposs far-larger space shuttle manually docked for decades with the ISS without issue.
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In 1986, President Ronald Reagan honored seven crew members the who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, astronauts have flown aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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President Ronald Reagan's address was originally scheduled on the same day as the Challenger space shuttle explosion.
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By comparison, the retired space shuttle Discovery racked up 39 successful takeoffs and landings over 27 years.
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After five years of training, she embarked on her first mission STS-49 on space shuttle Endeavor.
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Tyler is a materials scientist and was involved in the space shuttle program almost his entire life.
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Even NRO payloads that secretly went up with the space shuttle program in the 1980s haven't been declassified.
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He liked to catch the military's secret space shuttle, which sounded like a video game monster in agony.
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They were used as Mission Control for the Gemini, Apollo, Apollo/Soyuz, Skylab and Space Shuttle program missions.
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Last year, India tested a scale model of a Reusable Launch Vehicle, which resembles the US space shuttle.
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Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, in which the vehicle burst apart during launch.
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Both Behnken and Hurley flew on NASA's Space Shuttle, but now they're training for an entirely new vehicle.
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The US followed a few months later, sending NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan outside the Space Shuttle in orbit.
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Towering spacecraft-tracking antennas from NASA's old space-shuttle program settled in next to an old corner store.
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The space agency agreed, training him and assigning him to mission STS-95 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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But during the Space Shuttle program, astronaut crews were able to visit Hubble periodically and replace the gyros.
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Tomato seeds were tested aboard space shuttle missions but didn't produce fruit as it would have required pollination.
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Most of the astronauts have previous spaceflight experience from riding on the Space Shuttle or Russian Soyuz rocket.
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That satellite was originally slated to hitch a ride to orbit on the back of a space shuttle.
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The Ukrainian plane was originally developed in the 1980s for carrying the Soviet space shuttle on its back.
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The new rocket will use retrofitted space shuttle engines to send people to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
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Its attempts to broker a similar deal around reusable launch rockets, namely the space shuttle, were less successful.
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Though it was once considered the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, the group far exceeded its budget.
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"During my mission we found a small crack on the window of the space shuttle," she tells CNN.
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And our space program did not end as a result of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters.
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In 1986 President Ronald Reagan appointed him to a panel investigating the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
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The U.S. ceased human spaceflight from its own soil in 2011 when the space shuttle was officially retired.
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January 28 marks three decades since the space shuttle Challenger disaster claimed the lives of its entire crew.
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"At first we looked at using off-the-shelf engines, even rebuilding surplus space shuttle engines," Allen says.
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In fact, early drafts of the space shuttle program actually called for reusable first and second stage rockets.
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He was a consultant to the team responsible for the space shuttle (United Space Alliance) and then NASA.
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The first is a video described as the space shuttle Endeavour's launch in 2008 with only 418 views.
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John Young, an astronaut who flew the first Space Shuttle mission, has died at the age of 87.
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They're currently developing and building their Dream Chaser spacecraft, which is reusable and lands like the Space Shuttle.
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NASA even keeps its famed Space Shuttle-carrying Boeing 747 there when it is not transporting the spacecraft.
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In a small garage on West Bayou Drive, the space shuttle was born in secrecy 50 years ago.
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He participated in three Space Shuttle missions as an astronaut and even helped construct the International Space Station.
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Momentus, the in-space shuttle service for payloads, has bought six spaces on SpaceX SmallSat Rideshare Program missions.
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A former NASA space-shuttle-program director previously told Business Insider that this was "cutting it too close."
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And he commanded the first space shuttle flight, with pilot Bob Crippen, over three days in April 1981.
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Ever since the United States retired its Space Shuttle program in 2011, it has being relying on the Russians.
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It brings to mind the line that I've heard used to describe the modern airliner and the space shuttle.
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The last flight external tank of its kind, ET-94 will join the Endeavour space shuttle at the Center.
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The AR-22 is roughly the same type of engine used to power the Space Shuttle, according to Aerojet.
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The X-37B, built by Boeing, is an uncrewed vehicle, but resembles the Space Shuttle on a smaller scale.
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"When the space shuttle blew up, we came to this house of refuge," said Stevens, referring to Parliament House.
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A retired Air Force colonel, he's flown on two Russian Soyuz rockets, as well as the Space Shuttle Endeavor.
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While Obama was in office when the space shuttle program ended, George W. Bush chose to retire the orbiters.
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The SLS, by contrast, uses engines originally designed in the 1960s and left over from the Space Shuttle programme.
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Part of the reason NASA's Space Shuttle wound up being so expensive was the extraordinarily high cost of refurbishment.
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The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed to Low Earth Orbit on April 21920, 21200 by the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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More than 20 years ago, Jemison became the first African-American woman in space aboard the Endeavour space shuttle.
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Thirty years ago today, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff on a clear, cold morning in Florida.
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Young's fifth space mission was as commander of the inaugural flight of NASA's first space shuttle, Columbia, in 1981.
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Joe has a magnificent studio space, large enough to arrange one of the stages of a NASA space shuttle.
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The United States hasn't been able to fly humans into orbit since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
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While the Space Shuttle SRBs had four propellant segments, they've been scaled up to five propellant segments for SLS.
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Launch of India's first indigenous space shuttle RLV-TD is the result of the industrious efforts of our scientists.
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Elephants don't possess the necessary knowledge of mechanics and physics to successfully fly a rocket or space shuttle. Probably.
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It's unlikely I would have witnessed an actual Space Shuttle launch if I wasn't first a Star Trek fan.
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Nelson is one of the few lawmakers to travel into space, in January 22019 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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In total, the room was used during all 14 Apollo missions, nine Gemini missions, and 21 space shuttle missions.
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Celebrities: Retired astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle, and onetime football star Tim Tebow.
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Since NASA's space-shuttle program ended in 2011, private companies have been launching supplies to the International Space Station.
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They will be the first crewed orbital flights from US soil since the Space Shuttle program retired in 2011.
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Like, on the space shuttle, we had to change out the canisters of LiOH, lithium hydroxide, every so often.
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Sad memory Most of us remember where we were when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 30 years ago today.
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Starting in 2010, CCDev was designed to identify U.S. companies that could develop a replacement to the Space Shuttle.
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One month later, Space Shuttle Endeavour took off from Launch Complex 39A (we've been there) carrying Unity Node 203.
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The 22023 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger had a dramatic effect on NASA and the space exploration community.
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The 211 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger had a dramatic effect on NASA and the space exploration community.
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Robert and Heike Pfieffer, who owned the vehicle in the '80s, reconfigured the mobile home into a space shuttle.
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Decades earlier, faulty decision-making resulted in the deaths of the seven-person crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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On January 28, 1986, at 85033:39 EST, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center.
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And the US military has been flying a secretive, unmanned mini-space shuttle called the X-37B since 2010.
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On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after it took off for its 10th mission.
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It was developed in collaboration with the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang, who tested it aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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A series of space shuttle missions repaired and enhanced the Hubble Space Telescope, extending its operational life by decades.
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Nespoli, 60, is making his third space flight, having previously served on both space shuttle and space station crews.
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Yeah, the ... for the first time since the Space Shuttle, a U.S. vehicle will transport U.S. astronauts to orbit.
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After NASA stopped sending Apollo spacecraft to the moon in 1972, Launchpad 39A was eventually used for space shuttle launches.
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Related: How the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Changed America's Romance With Space Further, congressional work on space is pretty bipartisan.
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January 28 marked 21 years since space shuttle Challenger broke up 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven aboard.
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The Apollo 11 mission launched from 39A, as well as the final flight of the Space Shuttle program in 220.
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The space shuttle program was suspended and then, in 1993, canceled by Boris Yeltsin, the first post-Soviet Russian president.
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The first Space Shuttle external tank to ever stand on a launchpad was destroyed during the storm, according to CollectSpace.
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It's why punch lines about the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle went the equivalent of viral in the 1980s.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation is working on a small winged vehicle that glides back to Earth like the Space Shuttle did.
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In 2006, microbiologist Cheryl Nickerson sent salmonella aboard the Atlantis Space Shuttle to see how it would react in microgravity.
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NASA has depended on Russia to fly its astronauts to the International Space Station since it retired its space shuttle.
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From 1980 to 1994, he was an astronaut on four space shuttle missions: Two as pilot and two as commander.
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Glenn made history again in 1998 when he returned to space as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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It was the second major failure for the Space Shuttle program, and all seven crew members onboard the vehicle died.
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Specifically, Mom and Dad were monitoring the wing's hydraulics, plumbing throughout the Space Shuttle that helps to control certain systems.
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Astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, mission commander poses with a crowbar from a tool set onboard Space Shuttle Columbia, in 1995.
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By comparison, NASA's space shuttle orbiters, which are smaller than a BFR spaceship, each took about five years to make.
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Since the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, for instance, NASA has been sending M&Ms into space for astronauts.
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He named Kenneth Bowersox, a former NASA astronaut who made five space shuttle flights, as the new acting associate administrator.
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NASA recently test-fired one modified RS-25 space shuttle engine at "113% thrust" to observe its behavior for SLS.
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The Space Shuttle had to be covered with tiles because most metals wouldn't handle the heat generated by re-entry.
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Just for a sense of scale, the Space Shuttle program would probably have cost nearly $200 billion in today's dollars.
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It's a remnant of the USSR's failed effort at building a reusable space shuttle as part of the Buran Program.
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After the last space shuttle launch in 1992, NASA moved to a different control room and, later, a new building.
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She served as mission specialist in 1984 on board the space shuttle Discovery and specialized in operating its mechanical arm.
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"It looks like a small version of the [NASA space] shuttle, but it's unmanned," she said Friday during a panel.
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The clothing retailer attempted to pay homage to its 1969 founding by introducing an ad campaign featuring a space shuttle.
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He was one of only 12 people to walk on the moon, and he commanded the first space shuttle flight.
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NASA asked the private sector to design spacecraft capable of replacing the Space Shuttle Program after it retired in 2011.
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The truck, which he calls the Space Shuttle Cafe, is made from parts of an old Douglas DC-22001 airplane.
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But the program didn't seize the public's imagination until the arrival of the space shuttle and, with it, Canadian astronauts.
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That would be the first time an American spacecraft has launched astronauts since 2011, when the space shuttle program ended.
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Behnken flew on two space shuttle missions, logging over 708 hours in space with a total 37 hours of spacewalks.
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They grew up witnessing the Watergate scandal of the 1970s and watched the space shuttle Challenger blow up in 1986.
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He even played a pivotal role in digging out the core cause of the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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But later iterations of the experiment successfully flew on the space shuttle Discovery and even on the International Space Station.
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As the Space Shuttle program wound down, NASA improved its processes for keeping track of historical artifacts, the report said.
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On July 21, 2011, astronaut Chris Ferguson guided the Atlantis back to Earth to conclude the final space shuttle mission.
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Beyond the loss of prestige and pride, with the end of the space shuttle program, we lost huge operational capabilities.
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The Space Shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies over Washington, DC, on April 17, 2012.
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Reilly spent 13 years at NASA, flying on three space shuttle missions and making five spacewalks, the White House said.
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"Yes, we're flying later than we intended to," acknowledged Ferguson, who previously flew three Space Shuttle missions, including the last.
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Variations on Hamilton's software made for Apollo were also used for the space shuttle program and the Skylab space station.
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North Atlantic right whales, which can weigh as much as the space shuttle, exclusively eat nearly microscopic creatures called zooplankton.
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What do you do when faced with a 15-storey space shuttle fuel tank winding its way slowly through your neighbourhood?
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As an example, the Challenger accident in 1986 forced the Department of Defense to look for alternatives to the Space Shuttle.
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But soon, US astronauts could be launching on US-made vehicles once again, as NASA did during the Space Shuttle era.
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Similar experiments were done in the '90s, when pregnant rats were flown for a short time on board the Space Shuttle.
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Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, astronauts have flown aboard Russian Soyuz, at heavy cost per astronaut.
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NASA asked the private sector to develop crew-worthy spacecraft to replace the Space Shuttle program after it retired in 2011.
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It was also one of the biggest contractors for the Space Shuttle and the US component of the International Space Station.
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The U.S. ended its space shuttle program in 2011 but Japan, Russia and Europe are also currently developing similar reusable technology.
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Built by Boeing, the X-37B is the Air Force's reusable spaceplane that looks a bit like a mini Space Shuttle.
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Hubble was launched from the Discovery space shuttle in 1990, and it has been operating and studying the cosmos ever since.
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Lots of cool things to see there -- like the Space Shuttle Endeavour -- and it's an outing that requires lots of walking.
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It was the final flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, as well as the final mission for the entire Shuttle program.
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But since the Space Shuttle is no longer flying, there is no vehicle currently capable of bringing humans to the spacecraft.
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Background: NASA's Commercial Crew Program began as a replacement for the agency's space shuttle, which flew its last mission in 2011.
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NASA has been working toward launching people from U.S. soil again since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
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The big picture: The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, who flew with the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.
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Photo credit: AP imagesHow long does it take to transport a 15-story long space shuttle fuel tank through Los Angeles?
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The United States has not had the technology to fly humans to orbit since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
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Experiments on the Space Shuttle showed that these bacterial cells were thicker and produced more biomass than those grown on Earth.
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It is about six young, attractive astronauts from around the world working together in perfect harmony aboard the International Space Shuttle.
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"They didn't care about how well prepared I was to operate the [Space Shuttle] arm or deploy communication satellites," Ride said.
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This is a paltry amount since the space shuttle retired; that spacecraft used to hold up to seven astronauts per crew.
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The six-hour spacewalk helps the space station transition from the era of Space Shuttle transportation to that of privatized spaceflight.
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The deadliest were the Space Shuttle disasters of 1986 and 2003, which each claimed lives of all seven astronauts on board.
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It's a particularly stringent requirement, especially since each Space Shuttle flight had a 1 in 80 chance of loss of life.
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SpaceX is rebuilding a separate launchpad, one of the two formerly used for NASA's space shuttle missions, for the astronaut launches.
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"Bowersox — a former astronaut, space shuttle commander, and space station commander — said it's good for NASA to have "that aggressive goal.
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Her first was a space shuttle mission that launched in 2007, and the second was a Soyuz-launched mission in 2012.
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"Today, we remember the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, 31 years later," he tweeted alongside a picture of the crew.
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For reference, a nominal reentry for the Space Shuttle went through a max of about 3 g's during launch or reentry.
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In 2005, NASA asked private firms to develop a replacement for the agency's Space Shuttle to supply the International Space Station.
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Researchers have linked such shattering events as the Challenger space shuttle accident to human error caused by a lack of sleep.
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By the mid-60s, the plane that would become the Space Shuttle Cafe had been brought to a boneyard near Tucson.
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Oh, a prototype NASA space shuttle and a missile submarine will also meet you on the Far West Side of Manhattan.
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The most prominent examples were five space shuttle missions where NASA astronauts performed repairs and upgrades to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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For more than eight years since the last space shuttle flight, no person has launched to orbit from the United States.
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He hated heights and roller coasters, so why had he strapped himself into a space shuttle, the most dangerous ride imaginable?
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Salman's sons included successful businessmen, government officials and even the first Muslim astronaut, who flew on the American space shuttle Discovery.
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So when NASA developed the Apollo program and the space shuttle, it directed those programs and provided all of the funding.
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NASA hired them both as astronauts in 2000, and they became friends when they worked together in the space shuttle program.
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NASA asked the private sector the design spacecraft capable of ferrying astronauts to the ISS after retiring the space shuttle program.
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No one in the industry "wants a gap like we had with the space shuttle program," NanoRacks CEO Jeff Manber said.
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Then again, Tom's already been through the Super Bowl thing 6 times before ... so, maybe they're looking to buy a space shuttle??
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Behnken first joined the astronaut corps in 2000 and flew aboard space shuttle Endeavour twice, performing six spacewalks that totaled 37 hours.
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Previously, NASA studied this diminutive debris by looking at the little craters that it left on the space shuttle like acne scars.
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Falcon 9's launch Sunday was the first time the pad had been used since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
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They'll use cameras called AIRS/DyNAMITEs, initially developed to track the Space Shuttle during launches in the wake of the Columbia disaster.
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" Douglas continued, "When we were in our space shuttle rocket, I said &aposI think they saved the budget on this one, man.
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These missions mostly include veterans from the Space Shuttle program, though it will be Aunapu Mann and Cassada's first trips to space.
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For example, the crew of a space shuttle mission launched in 2011 parodied the 2009 Star Trek movie reboot for their poster.
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The Space Shuttle, another reusable spacecraft to have flown to orbit, was supposed to have turnaround times as short as two weeks.
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Prior to SpaceX's lease, the pad was made to support Space Shuttle launches, which used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for propellant.
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Kelly commanded NASA's Space Shuttle twice, and he's also a former Naval aviator who flew 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm.
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If you thought being on a bumpy boat ride was bad, just imagine being stuck on a space shuttle in zero gravity.
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On November 15, 1988, the Soviet Union's first space shuttle, the Buran, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan.
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Called the external tank-ground vibration test article (ET-GVTA), the tank was used for early vibration tests of the Space Shuttle.
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For NASA, Mr. Koslow did the official paintings of the Apollo 15 mission and the first launch of the space shuttle Endeavour.
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It will also include a space shuttle with rocket boosters, and various instruments used during historic space missions like Apollo and Mercury.
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It's the same pad that was used to launch the Apollo missions to the Moon, as well as numerous Space Shuttle flights.
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Bose loves to brag about inventing noise cancelling technology for Space Shuttle astronauts years before any other headphone company was considering it.
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They were supposed to have him land on the space shuttle runway, which would have really thrilled the 'Make America Great' types.
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Then they'd build an igloo-shaped dome home out of the bricks and parts of the space shuttle designed for this purpose.
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But once the Space Shuttle started flying in the 1980s, all astronauts have returned to solid ground when coming back from space.
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It carried the first spacewalker of the space shuttle program, the first American woman astronaut, and the first duo of women astronauts.
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Only one was ever built and it was used to carry the Soviet Union version of the Space Shuttle on its back.
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Arriving in Los Angeles the other day, Mark Kelly saw the Space Shuttle Endeavour again on display at the California Science Center.
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But the space shuttle program no longer exists and NASA funding has been slashed, just as renewed global competition raises the stakes.
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Naoko Yamazaki, a former Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut, quickly discovered the dangers of high-speed junk during her space shuttle mission.
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Since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011, astronauts have had to make their way to the ISS via Russian Soyuz capsules.
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In addition, the two winners get to visit New York for a tour of Space Shuttle Enterprise with retired astronaut Mike Massimino.
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After the Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011, NASA partnered with the private sector to develop the future of human spaceflight.
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So is the fact that Russian rockets kept putting U.S. and European astronauts into orbit after the U.S. space shuttle programme ended.
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The Hubble telescope was serviced by astronauts on the space shuttle after its launch, keeping it functioning for more than two decades.
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This is another point of similarity with the Space Shuttle, which used its heat-resistance bottom surface as a huge air brake.
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But we've depended on Russia to transport our astronauts to the space station since George W. Bush canceled the space shuttle program.
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Johnson went on to work with computers, though, doing key work for both the Apollo program and the early Space Shuttle program.
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In September 1993, NASA gardeners sent sprouted Arabidopsis thaliana into orbit on the space shuttle for a ten-day mission (STS-51).
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She flew on Challenger twice, once in 1983 and again in 1984, and investigated the explosion of the space shuttle in 1986.
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Through his company SpaceX, Musk has taken over former NASA space shuttle missions to become a global leader in commercial space travel.
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They met while training in the space shuttle program in 1996, and had an affair from 2004 to 2006, according to TIME.
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Family vacations included tours of aerospace facilities and, on one occasion, a trip to watch a space-shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral.
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"This thing takes more abuse than the space shuttle," said Kelvin McGee, the sub's stout, irrepressible operations manager, patting the side proudly.
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That is just over twice the speed that NASA's old space shuttle had to move after launch to achieve orbit of Earth.
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When NASA's space shuttle exploration was in full tilt, Barbie became an astronaut (albeit one in thigh-high boots and silver capes).
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A spy posing as a Cosmonaut gathered intelligence on the American space shuttle while training for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program mission.
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First Female Commander, U.S. Space Shuttle Video The Plan is Real Remarks Michelle Van EttenWomen In Business For Trump Remarks The Hon.
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As Fussell discusses, the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster, for instance, was in part to blame on a lack of psychological safety.
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In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger returned to Earth with a pea-size pit in its windshield from a paint-chip strike.
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Few Americans who lived through the 1980s can forget President Ronald Reagan's moving speech after the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986.
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In 21955, President Ronald Reagan honored seven crew members the who died after the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after liftoff.
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Reminiscent of the retired Space Shuttle, the reusable BFR spacecraft could potentially carry a dozen, if not dozens, of passengers around the Moon.
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Those special suits, which are being modified from old Space Shuttle suits, are slated to be complete just months before the planned launch.
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Others, like mine, explode mid-flight, a space shuttle torn asunder in the clear blue sky as the stunned crowd watches in disbelief.
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The U.S. relies on Russian Soyuz booster rockets to ferry American astronauts to the ISS after NASA retired the Space Shuttle in 2011.
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But with the space shuttle program discontinued in 2011, a viable way to get American astronauts above low-earth orbit may be difficult.
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Halsell logged more than 1,250 hours in space throughout five space shuttle missions for NASA, according to biographical data from the space agency.
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But this new one is more reminiscent of the Space Shuttle thanks to considerably lengthened fins and the addition of a top one.
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Bridenstine cites disasters like the Apollo 1 fire in 1967, and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle explosions in 1986 and 2003, respectively.
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Collins failed to note, however, that the sunset of the space shuttle program was set in motion by former President George W. Bush.
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NOT since July 2011, when the space shuttle Atlantis took to the skies for the last time, has Cape Canaveral seen such excitement.
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It's the same pad that was used to launch the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, as well as numerous Space Shuttle flights.
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Photo: NASAEmerson Specwar Knife This folding knife was made under contract for NASA for use on Space Shuttle missions and on the ISS.
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Pictured here is NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld, STS-125 mission specialist, posing with a power tool on the middeck of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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For instance, the main engines for the rocket, which were also used to power the Space Shuttle, are being built by Aerojet Rocketdyne.
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Martha McSally in Arizona, is a former Navy captain who flew 39 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm and commanded Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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The Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) takes flight (Image: ISRO)Early this morning, India launched its very first reusable space shuttle.
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The cash equivalent of each space shuttle launch was a cube of US dollar bills about 210 feet (21 meters) on a side.
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Space camp attendees walk under the Pathfinder, a Space Shuttle test simulator displayed at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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The U.S. has not launched its own astronauts since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, relying on Russian rockets and capsules instead.
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It's a lot smaller than the Space Shuttle, however, and can carry relatively small cargo loads in its 7×4-foot storage bay.
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Then, improbably, fourteen years later at the age of 77, Senator Glenn returned to space as an astronaut on the space shuttle Discovery.
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Delaware North also runs concessions at the Kennedy Space Center and has a trademark application for "Space Shuttle Atlantis," government court papers say.
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What you're looking at is a derelict Russian space shuttle, covered in dust and forgotten in the bowels of a Kazak launch facility.
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The space shuttle program began and ended, with the International Space Station now a permanent home for human beings in low Earth orbit.
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Still others, like the space shuttle after its first launch in 1981, stretched the bounds of what we thought was possible for humankind.
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In 1986, children in classrooms around the nation watched the liftoff of space shuttle Challenger — excited to see a teacher join a mission.
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"Each year three space shuttle missions could bring enough fuel for all human beings across the world," he told state media in 2006.
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The only time in history such a speech was postponed occurred under President Ronald Reagan in 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is made from a light fixture and a coffee can, the space shuttle from spools that held plastic wrap.
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U.S. astronaut Piers Sellers talks with reporters following the safe return the space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
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It's not reusable, like the heat-resistant tiles on the Space Shuttle, but it's simpler and can handle a wider range of conditions.
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Only after having survived all that did I apply to NASA as an astronaut; then I flew another experimental craft, the space shuttle.
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NASA hasn&apost been able to transport astronauts on its own spaceships since July 2011, when its space shuttle completed its final flight.
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Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, astronauts have flown to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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A daring space shuttle mission performed fixes to the space telescope that restored its function and enabled a steady stream of scientific discoveries.
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For launches from Florida, SpaceX hopes to complete renovations at Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, once used for space shuttle launches.
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The 153, 315-pound Space Shuttle Atlantis first launched on October 3, 1985 and flew 33 missions before its retirement in July, 2011.
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SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman (NOC)) began flying cargo to the ISS after NASA retired its Space Shuttle program in 2011.
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In total he had a four decade career with NASA, working on programs ranging from the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station.
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Henderson even hired a "space consultant" to help him out: Rick Searfoss, a retired NASA astronaut who has flown three space shuttle missions.
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Mice that had spent two weeks orbiting aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in 2011 (the final flight of the US space shuttle program) returned to Earth with early signs of liver damage in the forms of both nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and the beginning stages of fibrosis, an accumulation of cellular waste products that can lead to cirrhosis and-or total liver failure.
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Meanwhile, the Space Shuttle, which first launched in 1981, was and still stands as the most amazing flying machine ever imagined, built and operated.
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Astronaut Donald Peterson, one of the first astronauts to perform a spacewalk from the space shuttle, died on Sunday at the age of 26.
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This craft is essentially an unmanned version of the Space Shuttle with a payload bay that's roughly the size of a pickup truck bed .
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Since the end of the space shuttle program NASA has relied on Russian spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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The Space Shuttle program ended during his administration, and the US has had no way of sending people to space without cooperation from Russia.
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They've been used to either connect parts of the ISS together or to help spacecraft like the Space Shuttle hook up to the station.
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When they return to Earth, they touch down horizontally on a runway, like a commercial airplane or space shuttle orbiter coming in for landing.
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Since the space shuttle program ended in 2011, the Russian Soyuz rocket system has been the only way for astronauts to access the ISS.
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On February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas and Louisiana as it returned from a 16-day mission in space.
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The Space Launch System that will one day take us to Mars is a serious beast made up of four leftover space shuttle engines.
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For the first time since the US retired the Space Shuttle in 2011, humans have taken off from American soil and gone into space.
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"During my mission, we got at least three debris hits on the space shuttle windows," said Yamazaki, recalling her 22017 International Space Station assignment.
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That's one of the reasons behind the new $25.5 million financing for Momentus, which sells in-space shuttle services to move satellites between orbits.
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Like the space shuttle, SLS will launch from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and as such will be exposed to a variety of weather conditions.
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EST (1501 GMT) on Saturday from Launch Complex 1003A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which was the starting point for 82 space shuttle missions.
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The Texan Siamese was born in 1986—that's the same year as Drake, Megan Fox, and the year of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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The parking spot, in essence, ushers in a brand new era of American spaceflight after the end of the space shuttle program in 26.5.
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NASA has relied on Russian rockets to ferry astronauts to the space station since the United States retired its Space Shuttle program in 2011.
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A flown space suit worn in 23 by Don Pettit aboard the Soyuz TMA-1, following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, sold for $62,500.
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When US President Barack Obama canceled the proposed replacement to the Space Shuttle — NASA's project to return to the Moon — Musk praised the development.
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NASA commissioned the Starliner as a part of its Commercial Crew Development program in 2009 as a replacement for the now retired space shuttle.
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The X-15 program was a direct ancestor of the modern Space Shuttle program, and without it, many notable achievements would not have happened.
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But the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launching on January 28, 1986, taking McAuliffe's life and those of the six astronauts aboard.
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With decades-old Space Shuttle technologies still in use by NASA, this required an inordinate amount of R&D — in both engineering and manufacturing.
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This flight simulation chair was used during the early years of the Space Shuttle program to train astronauts in remote operations and docking maneuvers.
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Cover image: The International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour orbit Earth during Endeavour's final sortie on May 23, 2011, in space.
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Air Force officials say an unmanned mini space shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center caused a sonic boom that shook central Florida early Sunday.
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It has happened during space shuttle launches and when NASA releases images or sound taken from its spacecrafts, but those moments are relatively rare.
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Since the final space shuttle flight in 2011, American astronauts have had to hitch rides on Russian ships to get to the space station.
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A nation had watched the space shuttle take off; a nation had watched it split apart, in real time; a nation was in shock.
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However, NASA still had no use for launchpad 39A or many of the other buildings that had been used for the space shuttle program.
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It's also unclear whether Starliner will be the first US spacecraft to launch NASA astronauts since the Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011.
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Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, the United States has paid Russia to fly NASA's astronauts to the space station.
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NASA asked the private sector to develop spacecraft that could carry humans to replace the space shuttle program after it was retired in 2011.
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Bean later played a key role in preparing future astronauts, serving in that role until the first flight of the space shuttle in 1981.
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The vehicle will be powered by a liquid-fueled Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-22 engine, which is based on the now-retired space shuttle main engine.
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The Space Shuttle: Several bored billionaires are working on this one but we want the real deal: some publicly-owned, feel-good shit from NASA.
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But the meeting that we had scheduled was canceled because it was coincidentally occurring on the day the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up on launch.
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The average weight of these behemoths was 76 tons, or 152,000 pounds, which is nearly the weight of the Space Shuttle, or 153 African elephants.
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But somewhere along the way—maybe when NASA discontinued the Space Shuttle—I, like a lot of people, lost the sense of what forward means.
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So Virgin Galactic's pilots today technically become the first people to launch from American soil to space since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
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The young little son sees a toy space shuttle up on the shelf that he wants to play with and knocks it off the shelf.
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National Geographic Channels/Robert Viglasky "Daedalus doesn't have wings, but aerodynamically it's almost like a space shuttle," show adviser and spacesystems engineer Robert Braun says.
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However, one notable exception to this rule was the first flight of the Space Shuttle, which carried a crew of two into orbit around Earth.
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How do you think your experience, either flying the Space Shuttle or working as an engineer at NASA, will be helpful if you are elected?
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The Space Shuttle, for example, used to fly as low as 34 kilometers over Cuba's restricted airspace when it returned from space, according to Gangale.
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The previous record for the number of astronaut applications was 8,000 in 1978 when the space shuttle program was gearing up for its first launch.
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The site was used to launch the Apollo 245 mission to the Moon as well as numerous Space Shuttle missions — including the final Shuttle launch.
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As it is, the U.S. can only send crew aloft by renting space on Russian spacecraft after it ended its space shuttle program in 2011.
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As it is, the U.S. can only send crew aloft by renting space on Russian spacecraft after it ended its space shuttle program in 22015.
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NASA's space shuttle orbiters each measured over 122 feet in length, and the cost of just one shuttle, Endeavour, came in at over $1 billion.
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In 843, he became the oldest person to fly in space when, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, he flew on the space shuttle Discovery.
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The launchpad, originally built for the 1960s-era Apollo moon program, has not been used since the final space shuttle blasted off in July 2011.
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Ever since the space shuttle orbiter fleet was consigned to museums, Americans have had to pay for rides on the Russian Soyuz at inflated prices.
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It was eventually concluded that O-ring failure was the root cause of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger, along with the entire crew.
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Because the room was used throughout the space-shuttle program in the 1990s, much of the original equipment from the Apollo era had been replaced.
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Women have commanded space shuttle missions, have commanded the ISS, and have done pretty much everything that their male counterparts do currently while in space.
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But unlike Apollo or even the Space Shuttle program after it, Artemis increasingly represents the evolution of the business relationship between government and commercial space.
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In many ways, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was like President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 or the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Fourteen years later, I got the same sense I experienced with the Saturn V when I saw the space shuttle illuminated with the xenon light.
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A supplier of rockets and missile propulsion systems, the company in 1974 won the contract to build solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle program.
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Constructed out of a durable kevlar material, this type of habitat offers many advantages over the bulky, metallic modules carried up by the space shuttle.
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But where the Space Shuttle vehicles stood 184 feet tall, Dream Chaser is a much sleeker model measuring only 30 feet from nose to rear.
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Young descended those final few miles to the moon's surface as commander of Apollo 16, and later commanded the first flight of the space shuttle.
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The new kit comes in at an impressive 864 pieces, and includes astronaut mini-figs for simulated spacewalks, plus a Space Shuttle and a capsule.
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Mr. Glenn returned to space in 1998 aboard the space shuttle Discovery, a mission that made him, at age 77, the oldest man in space.
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Announced Tuesday, the LEGO set is made up of 864 pieces to build the space station, a NASA space shuttle, three spacecrafts, and two astronauts.
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Its passengers will be NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, both of whom are former military test pilots and veterans of space shuttle missions.
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Samples of blood, urine and saliva were collected from astronauts before, during and after short space shuttle flights and long-term International Space Station missions.
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Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, all of NASA's astronauts have been flying on Russia's Soyuz rocket to get to the ISS.
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He flew in space four times beginning with space shuttle Discovery's trip to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on a servicing mission in 1999, NASA said.
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NASA opted to ask the private sector to develop a replacement for the space shuttle so NASA could focus on exploring deeper into the cosmos.
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Instead of bunk beds or cots, the hostel has what it calls "space pods," or sleeping cubbies that look like something from a space shuttle.
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In 1988, Antonov completed what is still the world's largest "heavier than air" aircraft to be used as part of the Soviet space shuttle program.
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The space shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop on a runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 21, 2011, its last flight.
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In April 1981, Mr. Young commanded the Columbia space shuttle, with Mr. Crippen as the pilot, in the first flight of a reusable winged spacecraft.
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The ultimate goal of Commercial Crew is to revive US spaceflight capabilities that the agency lost when it retired the space shuttle fleet in 2011.
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The last launch from the pad was STS-22018 on July 8, 2011 carrying the Atlantis craft on the final mission of space shuttle program.
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Six years later at age 77, Glenn made history again, becoming the oldest person to go into space, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission.
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Over the next three days, a heavily modified Corvette will run blistering laps up and down a stretch of concrete originally built for Space Shuttle landings.
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More than 30 years after the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on its way to space, Christa McAuliffe's lesson plans are finally going to finish the trip.
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The U.S. has bought seats to the ISS on Soyuz rockets operated by Russia's Roscosmos space agency since 2011, when it retired the venerable space shuttle.
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Despite the fact that her boyfriend, Elon, lives on the space shuttle, Sam seems stubbornly committed to staying on Earth and continuing her late father's work.
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Lego's designers don't take into account aeronautics when they're creating a set like this, they just want the space shuttle to look realistic to entice kids.
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Since the space shuttle retired in 2011, there&aposs no other ship capable of carrying people up there besides Soyuz , the Russian workhorse of many decades.
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Last week, NASA commemorated the lives of seven crew members who perished 20123 years ago when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated above Earth during its re-entry.
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The X-24 program of the 1960s and '70s led to the development of the "lifting body" design that brought the space shuttle back to Earth.
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These modifications will enable the engine to operate at 225 percent thrust levels, up from the 26 percent thrust level generally used for the space shuttle.
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Boeing plans to fly humans to space for the first time since the space shuttle fleet was retired in 2011, according to NASA's safety advisory panel.
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In 1984, astronauts on board the Challenger Space Shuttle used the vehicle's robotic arm to capture an astronomy satellite that was having some issues in orbit.
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Before SpaceX moved in, the ground systems at the launch pad were made to support the Space Shuttle, which ran on liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
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However, he would later be supportive of female astronauts, and spoke at the memorial for Judith Resnik following her death aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
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In 1998, Glenn became the oldest person to go into space when he was selected to join the crew of SGS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
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Resembling a mini-Space Shuttle, the X-37B is known to test out technologies and experiments meant to last for long periods of time in space.
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The US hasn't had the capability to send its own astronauts to space (or bring them back) since the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011.
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According to Quartz, in 2005, Pence endorsed shutting down NASA's entire post-Space Shuttle exploration program as a way to save $44 billion over 10 years.
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A young African-American astronaut named Ron McNair was to have performed part of the concert from miles above the city, inside the space shuttle Challenger.
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Soon after, SpaceX is expected to begin flying from Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39A, the site of myriad Apollo and Space Shuttle-era launches.
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The pad was originally used by NASA to support launches of the Saturn V rocket to the Moon, as well as launches of the Space Shuttle.
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Boeing and SpaceX are racing to launch American astronauts to space from U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
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The launchpad is iconic, actually: LC-39A is what we used to send astronauts to the Moon, and it launched 82 flights of the Space Shuttle.
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And the company has provided many of the navigation systems for NASA's biggest human spaceflight vehicles, such as the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.
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Using PVC pipe, hula hoops and cardboard as frames, they created a space shuttle (with the child as an astronaut), a safari Jeep, a Monsters, Inc.
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Today, the center is enjoying a revival, following a few dark years after the space shuttle program was mothballed and crewed launches were outsourced to Russia.
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Formula 21958 features open-wheeled cars that today often exceed 21 miles per hour and subject riders to gravitational forces stronger than a space shuttle launch.
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This, too, was a known flaw, with post-mission evaluations finding evidence of a milder form of erosion during a flight of the space shuttle Columbia.
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In his long career with the agency, he managed the International Space Station and also directed the safe completion of at least 21 space shuttle missions.
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Boeing is trying to keep costs down (relatively speaking) by reusing technologies from the space shuttle programs, such as the engines and solid-fuel rocket boosters.
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While still serving in Senate, Glenn became a crew member of the Discovery space shuttle in 1998, making him the oldest person to fly in space.
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Ever since the space shuttle program ended in 2011, American astronauts bound for the International Space Station have had to hitch a ride with the Russians.
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She worked as a mission specialist and robotic arm operator in 1996, and returned to space in 1997 and 2003, all on the Columbia space shuttle.
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Friday's ceremony was one of several events this week in which NASA also paid tribute to the Space Shuttle Challenger crew, killed during launch on Jan.
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One VSS Unity pilot, Rick "CJ" Sturckow, already has his wings: A former Marine, Sturckow was a NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
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Their parts have proven increasingly difficult to refurbish since the 2011 retirement of NASA's space shuttle program, which could easily transport suits to and from Earth.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force announced that in August, it'll be launching a reusable X-37B mini-space shuttle on board a Falcon 9 rocket.
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NASA once had a program to take a variety of such people on the space shuttle, including a journalist, an artist, and, of course, a teacher.
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The obstacles they are desperate to erect are like swarms of gnats buzzing around the space shuttle of market demand, fueled by a cannabis booster rocket.
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The fatal breakup of Space Shuttle Columbia on reentry following its 28th mission was tragedy enough that other shuttle missions were scrubbed for over two years.
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In-space shuttle service, Momentus, raises $25.5 million as investments climb for 'new space' tech Meanwhile, Relativity Space is barreling ahead with its own technology development.
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Since that time, the Apollo program ended, the Space Shuttle program started and ended, and the International Space Station began housing astronauts from around the world.
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Over a period of several weeks, he designed and built the first three-dimensional model of the space shuttle out of balsa wood, paper and glue.
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Swimmer watched on television as Senator John Glenn made his second trip into space, as the oldest astronaut ever to fly, aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
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The third season of the dramedy opens around the time of the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle disaster, turning that tragedy into an excruciatingly awkward TV moment.
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Three space shuttle missions in 1997, 1999, and 2002 repaired the gyroscopes and added new instruments including a near-infrared spectrometer and a wide-field camera.
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Since the final lunar mission in 1972, more than 19603 American women have flown on the space shuttle or spent time aboard the International Space Station.
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Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has had to rely on Russia to transport the agency's astronauts to and from the ISS.
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The first part was obviously to replace the expensive space shuttle with cheaper, commercial alternatives to move people and things to and from low Earth orbit.
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It began after the space shuttle Columbia disaster, which claimed the lives of its seven-member crew during its return to Earth on February 1, 2003.
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Since NASA's final space shuttle flight, however, the agency has relied on Russia's Soyuz system to ferry its astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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In 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart on re-entry, killing its seven-member crew, Hurley and Behnken were stationed on the runway together.
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The launch afforded the sight of a heavy-lift rocket that had not been seen at the Kennedy Space Center since the last space shuttle mission.
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The government competition hopes to resurrect US spaceflight capability that was lost when it retired the space-shuttle fleet in July 2011, but with commercial vehicles.
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SpaceX has spent less money in the 16 years since its founding than the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spent building the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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" One former senior administration official described it this way when asked what Trump's strategy against impeachment should be: "Hopefully Rudy will be on the space shuttle.
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It would be the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 that the U.S. has flown its own astronauts to space.
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Before launch, a group of NASA engineers came to Ride, asking if 100 tampons would be sufficient for her needs on a six-day space shuttle mission.
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Incredibly, microorganisms have also been shown capable of surviving re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, as witnessed by bacteria that survived the Space Shuttle Columbia crash in 2003.
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"Even with today's technology, it's still an extraordinarily difficult, extraordinarily dangerous task to undertake, period, " Wayne Hale, a former manager of NASA's space shuttle program, told Space.com.
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Eileen Collins, a retired astronaut who was  the first female commander of a NASA space shuttle mission, will address the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night.
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Meanwhile, SpaceX is preparing for its next launch from a newly renovated pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, known as 39A, which was used for Space Shuttle launches.
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Boeing's boots are also lightweight and foldable, unlike the bulky boots of the ACES spacesuit that NASA astronauts wore during launch and landing of the Space Shuttle.
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When I saw my first launch — a Space Shuttle mission in the summer of 2008 — everyone gave me the same advice: see it with your own eyes.
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NASA has been waiting since the Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011 for SpaceX and Boeing to return human spaceflight capabilities to the US space program.
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Youngsters joined former space shuttle astronaut Winston Scott there, as a giant screen showed the Saturn V rocket lifting off with the Apollo 11 crew in 1969.
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"Alan Bean was the most extraordinary person I ever met," said astronaut Mike Massimino, who flew on two space shuttle missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Image credit: NASAThe entire space shuttle program went on hiatus for 32 months after the disaster, as teams recovered debris and investigated the cause of the accident.
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Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin tweeted that he saw something "curved, organic looking" floating out of the payload bay during his time on the space shuttle Atlantis.
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GRiD was an important early company for portable computing, with its GRiD Compass 1000, an early clamshell-based laptop, showing up on the Space Shuttle in 1985.
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Since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, the U.S. has been relying on Russian Soyuz rockets , launched from Kazakhstan, to get astronauts to the ISS.
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He should know: Prior to assuming NASA's top job in 2009, Bolden was himself an astronaut for 53 years, commanding two space shuttle missions during that time.
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After the Space Shuttle was retired in the summer of 2011, NASA started paying Russian space agency Roscosmos to take astronauts to the ISS on Soyuz rockets.
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Anybody who is my age and born in the 220006s remembers the missions to the Moon and the excitement during the Reagan Administration with the Space Shuttle.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation, a private company building a small space shuttle called the Dream Chaser, has already taken notice of their bit part in the new movie.
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The Space Shuttle had a toilet, for example, but it required intense training with a below-the-seat video camera to master and avoid making a mess.
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One spot features Nelson recounting his experience aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, while the other takes direct aim at Scott for his record in the governor's mansion.
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Since NASA ended its space shuttle program in 2011, U.S. astronauts have had to fly aboard Russian-launched Soyuz spacecraft on missions to the orbital research laboratory.
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The company is also refurbishing Marshall's historic Test Stand 21 — once used for Saturn V rockets and Space Shuttle engines — where it is testing several engine variants.
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The Dream Chaser Cargo System builds on the mini-space shuttle design Sierra Nevada has been working on for a decade, including four years with NASA backing.
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But these are mood-pieces—looming space shuttle ambience for Under The Skin, slow classical mourning on Jackie—and are far away from her work with Tirzah.
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After medically serving 25 space shuttle missions, Logan stated current measures are stop-gaps that do little to actually counteract the effects of weightlessness on the body.
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Right whales are baleen whales, so they filter feed, supporting their 70-ton weight — nearly as much as the Space Shuttle — solely with microscopic animals called zooplankton.
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Though Krtek never really made it to the United States, a Krtek toy accompanied the American astronaut Andrew J. Feustel on the space shuttle Endeavour in 2011.
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Virgin Galactic Fleet Virgin Galactic Fleet Space exploration is definitely having a moment — and it could be its biggest yet since Apollo, or the Space Shuttle program.
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The last time NASA astronauts launched from the United States was July 8, 2011, when the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on its last flight from Florida.
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Sally Ride (1951-2012) NASA astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, serving as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.
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On this day 34 years ago, NASA&aposs space shuttle Challenger broke apart during launch, claiming the lives of its seven crew members, including one civilian teacher.
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On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart a little over a minute after it launched.
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Such a flight will mark the first time a human has flown into orbit from the United States since NASA's Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011.
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Since NASA ended its space-shuttle program in 2011, the agency has relied exclusively on Russia to ferry its astronauts to and from orbit in Soyuz spacecraft.
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She took time out for a pair of news interviews Tuesday, the 34th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger accident that claimed all seven lives on board.
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It will be the first time the U.S. launched its own astronauts to the International Space Station since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.
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The US space shuttle program ended in 2011, and NASA has paid Russia about $80 million per seat to send American astronauts to space aboard Soyuz rockets.
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After the Space Shuttle program retired in 2011, NASA turned for the first time to the private sector to build the next generation of human spaceflight hardware.
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"I'm from a different time," he says, before describing how jarring it was to watch the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explode live on television while in school.
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After retiring its space shuttle fleet in July 2011, NASA has relied exclusively — and expensively — on Russia to send astronauts to and from space aboard Soyuz spacecraft.
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It was even used as the wake-up call for astronauts on the Space Shuttle Atlantis in space in 1997, according to the Songerwriters Hall of Fame.
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It'll really be the first time a vehicle from the United States launches astronauts into orbit since the Space Shuttle, which — Which has been some years, right?
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On the left bumper, there's a sticker for Ares I-X, a prototype launch system developed for launching astronauts into space once the Space Shuttle was retired.
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Kelly's final mission, the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavor, took place as his wife, then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, recovered from an assassination attempt in January 2011.
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Later on, she worked on the investigation into the accident involving the Space Shuttle Columbia, making her the only person to work on the committees for both accidents.
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Mike Moses, Virgin Galactic's senior vice president of operations, said the company's mindset is similar to what he experienced as a member of the NASA space shuttle team.
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After Skylab's inaugural off-Earth Thanksgiving, the holiday did not overlap with manned American space missions until the second flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in November 1985.
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At present, NASA astronauts go to and from the space station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and have done since 2011when NASA last flew its space shuttle mission.
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If all goes well, Dragon will join a small group of vehicles that have orbited the Earth multiple times — the most notable of which was NASA's Space Shuttle.
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Participants were given a one-shot training, which substantially reduced confirmation bias in Carter Racing, a business simulation modeled on the decision to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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We also know that it's around 30-feet long, like a kind of shrunk-down Space Shuttle, and we know that it's built by Air Force contractor Boeing.
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Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, the US has been forced to rely on Russian rockets to get people to the International Space Station.
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Since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, NASA has been relying on Russia's Soyuz rocket to take the agency's astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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Later in the year, if all goes according to plan, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, both veterans of America's space-shuttle programme, will become SpaceX's first two astronauts.
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When former NASA astronaut Eileen Collins was asked to pilot the Space Shuttle in 213 — the first woman to do so — she invited 213 women to her launch.
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The space shuttle Orbiter Enterprise "earns its wings" as it clears its 747 carrier aircraft on August 12, 1977, to begin the first free flight of the spacecraft.
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But once these crews do fly, it will mark the first time that NASA astronauts have launched from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program.
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Last May, the Air Force announced that an unmanned space-shuttle-like vehicle that appears to be classified had completed 230 days orbiting Earth, doing who knows what.
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The official assignment of these astronauts marks a major milestone for NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), created to replace the Space Shuttle fleet after its retirement in 2011.
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During the ninth Space Shuttle mission in 1983, astronauts ate from trays containing foods like meatballs with barbecue sauce, rice pilaf and Italian beans, and thermostabilized chocolate pudding.
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A little over a week later, on July 21st, the last flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program came to an end with the landing of Atlantis in Florida.
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It also marked the first crewed flight to space from US soil since the Space Shuttle retired in 1363, with Virgin Galactic beating out other well-funded competitors.
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Several speakers have been selected to generate media buzz around the event: Retired astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle, is scheduled to speak.
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The flight, the first for the company from a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center once used for NASA's space shuttle program, was rescheduled for 9:38 a.m.
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He began his career at NASA in 2000 and piloted two space shuttle missions, one on Endeavor in 2009 and the final shuttle mission on Atlantis in 2011.
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He flew in space four times, beginning with the space shuttle Discovery's trip to the Hubble Space Telescope on a servicing mission in 1999, the space agency said.
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Thirty years ago, Bob Ebeling drove to the headquarters of the aerospace contractor Morton Thiokol in Brigham City, Utah, to watch the launch of the space shuttle Challenger.
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"The Administrator traveled to Costa Rica to attend a reunion of his space shuttle mission STS-61C crew and was not on official NASA business," NASA told me.
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Though the Space Shuttle Orbiter and Concorde may be a bit larger than you'd expect, they're all dwarfed by the nearly football-field-sized Antonov An-225 Mriya.
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In 1983, Ride boarded the Space Shuttle Challenger for a six-day space mission as a specialist using the shuttle's robotic arm to deploy communications satellites, CNN reported.
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Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, astronauts have flown aboard Russian Soyuz — at a cost to NASA of more than $70 million per seat.
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SpaceX equipment will be used sometime next year for the first manned missions to space launched from American soil since the agency's space shuttle program ended in 2011.
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The rocket launched Monday was last used just 72 days ago, meaning the private spaceflight company almost broke the record for fastest turnaround held by NASA's space shuttle.
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The unmanned, highly secretive military craft resembles a miniature space shuttle and earlier this year completed a classified U.S. Air Force mission lasting nearly two years in orbit.
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