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Thanks to his love for flight and contributions to NASA, John Denver was nearly selected to board the infamous Challenger ...
Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and ...
Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas recently filed the “Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act” to transfer the Discovery to its “rightful home” at the NASA’s Johnson Space ...
Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...
And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act" to move Space Shuttle Discovery ...
On May 18, 2025, Lego will release the new Shuttle Carrier Aircraft kit that celebrates the storied space shuttle Enterprise and the Boeing 747 that carried it on test flights and a goodwill tour.
The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." ...
1/7 The Space Shuttle Enterprise debuted in 1976 and was used by NASA to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched from atop a specially modified Boeing 747. It lacked engines and a ...
Only two astronauts were on the shuttle: the pilot, John Young, and the commander, Bob Crippen. Since this was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle, the only objective for this mission was to ...