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
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Ending Apollo: Why Did We Stop Going to the Moon? That attitude coming from the president put NASA in a difficult position The space agency had requested funds for the remaining Apollo missions but also to study NASA’s top post-Apollo priorities in human spaceflight, a 12-person permanent space station and a reusable system to bring supplies and crew to the station and back—a space shuttle
Discovery STS-26 – The Dream is Alive In this video, Space Shuttle Discovery undergoes mating operations in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) as it is attached to its external tank in preparation for rollout to Launch Pad 39B This process was a key step leading up to the STS-26 mission, marking NASA’s highly anticipated return to flight following the Challenger accident
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Complete coverage of STS-1 - April 12th 1981 (40th Anniversary) STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, and returned on April 14, 1981, having orbited the Earth 37 times
Space Shuttle Discovery | National Air and Space Museum The Space Shuttle Discovery flew every kind of mission an orbiter was meant to fly As a historical object in the Museum's collection, it embodies the 30-year history of U S human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011, the era of the Space Shuttle program What was the Space Shuttle Program?
Move Space Shuttle Discovery to Texas There are three remaining space-flown space shuttle orbiters in the United States — the others, Atlantis and Endeavour, went to Florida and California, respectively
Jeremy R. Hansen: First Canadian in Deep Space During Hansen’s youth, it became increasingly possible to imagine a Canadian doing such a thing Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space in 1984, when he flew on STS-41G as a payload specialist NASA had made that seat available because the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) provided the Canadarm Remote Manipulator System for the Space Shuttle
NASA Launch Commentator Quotes - NASASpaceFlight. com STS-115 -- "and liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis, opening a new chapter in the completion of the International Space Station for the collaboration of nations in space " STS-116 -- "and liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery, lighting up the night sky as we continue building the international space station