Space Shuttle program - National Air and Space Museum The Space Shuttle program ran from presidential approval in 1972 to its end in 2011 It was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the United States and NASA The Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS), was the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into orbit
The First Space Shuttle: 40 Years Since STS-1 A cutaway drawing of the major components of the Space Transportation System (NASA Photo, S81-30630) The reusable spaceplane, the Space Shuttle, ushered in a new era of human spaceflight 40 years ago this week with the launch of STS-1 on April 12, 1981 Commanded by space veteran and moonwalker John Young and piloted by Robert Crippen, the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center | National Air and Space Museum At the Udvar-Hazy Center, you'll be surrounded with icons of aviation and spaceflight, from the Space Shuttle Discovery to the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, and many, more Each section of aircraft is accompanied by a short label, making this a favorite museum for our youngest visitors to explore
Training for the Shuttle: From the Personal Papers of Sally Ride and . . . In the era of the Space Shuttle from the 1980s to the early 2010s, NASA astronauts would receive numerous information booklets and other written materials which would explain to them how to operate the Space Shuttle The Museum's Archives holds two rich collections related to this intense technical training in the personal papers of Sally K Ride and David M Brown
Ellison Shoji Onizuka: The First Asian American in Space When NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka rode Space Shuttle Discovery into space on shuttle mission STS-51-C in 1985, he made history on several counts He was the first Asian American astronaut, the first astronaut of Japanese descent, the first person from Hawai‘i in space, and the first Buddhist in space His second space flight occurred just a year later in 1986 when Space Shuttle Challenger