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‘Challenger’ takes a new look at the 1986 Space Shuttle disaster
04 Jun 2024 22:27 GMT
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster gripped the nation. … 73 seconds after launch, the Space Shuttle broke apart over the Atlantic … a year after the Shuttle Discovery launched during the coldest weather …
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Opinion: museums should be free
08 Jun 2024 15:11 GMT
… . Udvar-Hazy Center, home to Space Shuttle Discovery and an SR-71 Blackbird …
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Were the crew of the Challenger ALIVE for the two-and-a-half minutes it took for the cabin to plunge into the ocean? The explosion appalled the word, now a new book poses haunting question...
08 Jun 2024 07:01 GMT
… crew into the Challenger space shuttle on the launch pad … way for the 25th space shuttle flight in a programme … time.
Critics of the space shuttle programme were becoming increasingly vocal … four craft (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery and Atlantis) but with an …
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Fifty great things to do with your family this summer
08 Jun 2024 04:09 GMT
… California visiting family in Castlecomer Discovery Park. Photograph: Dylan Vaughan A … ’ Animal and a giant Nasa space shuttle to giant robots and a …
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New Museum of Flight Exhibit Explores Living in Space
07 Jun 2024 23:46 GMT
… mission specialist on STS-131 space shuttle Discovery who was a guest of …
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The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo
07 Jun 2024 18:09 GMT
… . The spacecraft on the right, Discovery, was faded and showed signs … , dignitaries offered fond words about Discovery’s accomplishments. NASA administrator Charlie … major human flight initiative, the space shuttle, presented a vastly different relationship …
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Video: Boeing capsule delivers NASA astronauts to ISS
07 Jun 2024 02:26 GMT
… ;t uncommon, he stressed. The Space Shuttle program in its early days … the 1960s and 1970s, the Space Shuttle from 1981 to 2011, and … first uncrewed test, to the discovery that the cabin was filled …
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Boeing Starliner crew aboard International Space Station after challenging docking
07 Jun 2024 02:12 GMT
… ’t uncommon, he stressed. The Space Shuttle programme in its early days … the 1960s and 1970s, the Space Shuttle from 1981 to 2011, and … first uncrewed test, to the discovery that the cabin was filled …
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‘He was an adventurer’: Anthony ‘Tony’ Spear, chance-taking former JPL manager, dies at 87
07 Jun 2024 02:05 GMT
… managers passionate about NASA’s Discovery program of faster, cheaper, better … instruments that flew aboard several Space Shuttle missions in the early 1990s …
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Thruster problems delay Boeing Starliner docking with ISS
06 Jun 2024 17:16 GMT
… the 1960s and 1970s, the Space Shuttle from 1981 to 2011, and … first uncrewed test, to the discovery that the cabin was filled …