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Pensacola News Journal
April 29, 2018
Conceptualization of the spacecraft that evolved into the Space Shuttle began even before the first men walked on the moon. The formal launching of the program to develop a reusable space vehicle came in 1972, the resulting design resembling a conventional aircraft with a delta wing and controlÃâà...
collectSPACE.com
April 22, 2018
The two NASA veterans became the 96th and 97th space explorers to enter the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame during a public induction ceremony on Saturday (April 21) under the space shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. More than 15 of their fellow astronauts joinedÃâà...
Colorado Springs Gazette
April 18, 2018
Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to begin production next month in Louisville, Colo., on the first orbital version of its Dream Chaser spacecraft, which is designed to be a replacement for the Space Shuttle and will be used to ferry equipment, supplies and science experiments to and from the International SpaceÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
April 17, 2018
Reusable space shuttles are a common goal among international space players. U.S. company Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX -- fronted by Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk -- has worked to cut launch costs by making vehicles reusable, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans toÃâà...
Astronomy Magazine
April 12, 2018
On April 12, 1981, the space shuttle Columbia successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and became the first reusable spacecraft to orbit Earth. The famous shuttle not only laid the groundwork for the success of NASA's 30-year-long Space Shuttle Program, but also conducted invaluableÃâà...
WOGX
April 10, 2018
In orbit, the space shuttle's top speed was 17,500 miles per hour. At that speed, the astronauts saw a sunset or sunrise about once every 45 minutes. During the total of the shuttle program, which went from 1981 to 2011, the combined mileage of all five orbiters was 513.7 million miles. The space shuttleÃâà...
Florida Today
March 10, 2018
March 11, 2018, marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the first space shuttle from Kennedy Space Center. Most of you probably think the first shuttle launched on April 12, 1981, but that's not entirely accurate. The first launch was a mini-shuttle commissioned by TODAY newspaper (predecessor ofÃâà...
VICE
March 10, 2018
What you're looking at is a derelict Russian space shuttle, covered in dust and forgotten in the bowels of a Kazak launch facility. It's a remnant of the USSR's failed effort at building a reusable space shuttle as part of the Buran Program. Based on plans stolen from NASA, the program chewed up untoldÃâà...
Popular Mechanics
March 8, 2018
If Stratolaunch Systems were to build a space shuttle to launch with its mothership, it would be about the same size as NASA's space shuttle that retired in 2011. As long as a runway could accommodate the enormous plane, the Black Ice shuttle could launch from anywhere in the world. It would then returnÃâà...
Markets Insider
February 26, 2018
The new rocket will use retrofitted space shuttle engines to send people to the moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA recently test-fired one modified RS-25 space shuttle engine at "113% thrust" to observe its behavior for SLS. The first SLS mission is supposed to fly a space capsule around the moon, but theÃâà...
Space Daily
February 24, 2018
China will accelerate research and commercial use of rocket upper stages, a carrier rocket official said on Friday. "The Yuanzheng rocket upper stage family will have a new member, Yuanzheng-1S, this year, serving launches for low and medium Earth orbit satellites," said Wang Mingzhe, an upper stageÃâà...
Reason
February 17, 2018
"During voir dire, the prosecutor showed the potential jurors an incomplete puzzle of a space shuttle (with only sixty-six percent of the pieces present), stated that the image was a space shuttle 'beyond a reasonable doubt,' and asked the potential jurors whether anyone disagreed, which none did; theÃâà...
WTSP 10 News
February 11, 2018
With two sonic booms as it descended into Cape Canaveral, a space shuttle landed at the Kennedy Space Center for the very first time 34 years ago. On Feb. 11, 1984, Challenge crossed over Tampa Bay toward Florida's Space Coast, where spectators waited and watched to see the 100-ton shuttle returnÃâà...
FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay
February 8, 2018
CAPE CANAVERAL (FOX 13) - Thirty-four years ago, the Sunshine State got its first wakeup call from an arriving spacecraft. The space shuttle's signature twin sonic booms rattled Florida on February 11, 1984 as Challenger made the first-ever Kennedy Space Center landing. The shuttle crossed the FloridaÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
December 31, 1999
It's been nearly seven years since a space shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center, and now more of that program's astronauts are joining the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Astronauts Scott Altman and Thomas Jones were inducted into the hall of fame at a ceremony Saturday at Kennedy SpaceÃâà...
Palm Beach Post
December 31, 1999
Mulready directed Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's effort to win a contract to build engines for the space shuttle, a combination rocket-airplane to carry astronauts and equipment into orbit. The shuttle would merge the principle of the airplane with the space capsule to further man's scientific research and use of outer space.
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