Houston's Created Its Own Problem: The Unnecessary Fight To Snatch Up The Discovery Space Shuttle Continues

If there is a custody battle to be had, the Smithsonian has it locked down.
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'Oh my God, no!' Space shuttle Challenger exploded 39 years ago

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...
Reuters

Timeline: NASA's 30-year space shuttle program winding down

(Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. Shuttle Endeavour is due to launch on Friday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...
Space Coast Daily

NASA Honors Late Astronaut John Fabian With Remembrance Wreath at Space Shuttle Atlantis

NASA Astronaut John Fabian at Kennedy Space Center previewing the last Shuttle mission. July 2011. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – ...
Space.com

'Star Bound' serves up a 'snarky approach to space history' and the American space program (exclusive)

Noted author, poet, and NASA historian Bruce McCandless III ("Wonders All Around") grew up in close proximity to the thundering roar of Apollo-era rockets and the Space Shuttle Program as the son of ...
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Upgrading the Space Shuttle

The space shuttle system has been modified many times since the first launch of space shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, major upgrade programs were established to respond to problems and ...
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Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...