Space Shuttle program - National Air and Space Museum
Sep 6, 2023 · 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 …
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most utilized orbiter. Discovery was flown on 39 Earth …
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most utilized orbiter. Discovery was flown on 39 Earth …
The First Space Shuttle: 40 Years Since STS-1
Apr 12, 2021 · The legacy of the Space Shuttle program was to some degree built around the results of its very first mission. The reusable spaceplane, the Space Shuttle, ushered in a new era of human …
Launch Complex 39: From Saturn to Shuttle to SpaceX and SLS
May 22, 2020 · It is the same one used by the last NASA astronauts to launch from American soil, the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew in July 2011. Indeed, Launch Complex 39 A and B have been the site of …
History of Space Shuttle Rendezvous - NASASpaceFlight.com
Dec 22, 2011 · History of Space Shuttle Rendezvous Space Shuttle Guidance, Navigation, and Rendezvous Knowledge Capture Reports JSC-66136 Revision 1 - October 2011 This document is a …
A new podcast about Space Shuttle, Sixteen Sunsets with Kevin Fong.
Nov 5, 2024 · To survive, NASA gambles on a radical new program: the Space Shuttle - a reusable spacecraft promising a new era of spaceflight, but it comes at a cost – a Faustian bargain with the …
Shuttle Service to DC - National Air and Space Museum
Apr 19, 2012 · Much to the delight of large crowds below, Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), made several passes over the Washington, DC area …
The Legacy of Space Shuttle Flight Software - NASASpaceFlight.com
Oct 17, 2014 · With the computers in control of virtually all critical space shuttle functions, software changes were often considered as a solution to address risks and problems with the hardware sub …
NASASpaceFlight.com Forum - Index
3 days ago · 39779 Posts 893 Topics Last post by Protected in Protected on Today at 12:52 pm L2 Space Flight Historical Huge archive of hi-res downloadable photos. Vast Shuttle depository, and …