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Space shuttle Discovery is headed to Houston. The Smithsonian and NASA say it may have to be sent in pieces

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space ...
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Shuttle-C – NASA's Abandoned Unmanned Space Shuttle

The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which took the lives of 7 astronauts, changed NASA’s culture and risk-appetite ...

Why Did NASA Choose A Boeing 747 To Piggyback The Space Shuttle?

NASA's space shuttle was a large, heavy vehicle, and needed an even larger, heavier low-wing aircraft to transport it across ...
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NASA Tests Space Shuttle Engine That Will Power Moon Mission Five Years in the Future

American space agency NASA and space company L3Harris announced they've conducted a test firing of the second new RS-25 ...
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Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Kennedy Space Center After Landmark Mission — On This Day in 1995

On this day in 1995, Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop on the runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, completing a successful and historic eight-day journey in orbit. The mission, designated ...

Moss Can Survive the Harsh Conditions of Space

In 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA ...

Here's how a Wisconsin student, paper scientists got astronauts to make paper in space in 1986

Here's the semi-forgotten story of how, in 1986, NASA picked an Appleton high school student's experiment to fly on the space ...

Former NASA Space Shuttle Engineer Releases Groundbreaking Book on Anxiety Relief Through Energy Therapy

Mark L. Fox, former Space Shuttle Chief Engineer and inventor of the VIBE pocket-sized Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) device, announces the release of his new book, Go Find Joy: The Science of ...