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Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on 12 April 1981 at Pad 39A for mission STS-1. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable ...
Apr 19, 2023 · With a merging of technology and tears, the final chapter in the 30-year history of space shuttle flights has been written. For all who have worked to send these first-of-a-kind engineering marvels to space and return them to Earth, all who have flown aboard them, and all who have simply watched with awe and pride as they flew, space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-135 mission was an emotional end of ...
Jan 28, 2021 · last updated 28 January 2021. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger's STS-51L mission, which ended in tragedy shortly after launch on Jan. 28, 1986. From left to right, the astronauts are ...
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Dec 5, 2005 · NASA. The first shuttle liftoff scheduled from Pad B, STS-51L was beset by delays. Launch was originally set for 3:43 p.m. EST, Jan. 22, 1986, slipped to Jan. 23, then Jan. 24, due to delays in mission 61-C. Launch was reset for Jan. 25 because of bad weather at the transoceanic abort landing (TAL) site in Dakar, Senegal.
Jul 9, 2021 · The shuttle's safe nighttime landing on July 21, 2011 marked the end of American-launched crewed missions to space for almost exactly nine years, until Hurley and Behnken launched on a SpaceX Crew ...
The final space shuttle mission and the last flight of Atlantis, STS-135, lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 8, 2011. The main objectives for astronauts Ferguson, Hurley, Magnus, and Walheim included transferring supplies and spare parts to the space station and delivering a large experiment to ...
May 6, 2024 · NASA hired Boeing and SpaceX a decade ago to ferry astronauts to and from the space station after the shuttle program ended, paying the private companies billions of dollars. SpaceX has been in ...
