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Two Astronauts Are Still Stranded in Space. Here's How They'll Get Home in 2025
Two NASA astronauts have been stranded on the International Space Station for almost five months, despite initially planning to stay just eight days. In ...
CNET
3 days ago
Boeing Raises Doubts About Its Future in the Space Business
(Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. is weighing options for its Starliner operations as part of a broad review, raising the potential it will end one of the most ...
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7 days ago
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Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on 12 April 1981 at Pad 39A for mission STS-1. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
Apr 19, 2023 · STS-135 was the 33rd and final flight for Atlantis, which has spent 307 days in space, orbited Earth 4,848 times and traveled 125,935,769 miles. STS-135 also was the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/index.html.
It was the only time that a Shuttle crew of four flew to the ISS. The last shuttle mission to fly with just four crew members occurred 28 years earlier: STS-6 on April 4, 1983, aboard Space Shuttle Challenger.
Jul 9, 2021 · NASA's final space shuttle mission, which launched 10 years ago this week, almost didn't happen. The mission on space shuttle Atlantis, called STS-135, launched on July 8, 2011. It was initially...
Jul 8, 2021 · The final space shuttle mission, STS-135, the last flight of the orbiter Atlantis, lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on July 8, 2011.
Jul 8, 2011 · Mission: STS-135 carried the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module to deliver supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station. Primary Payload: 37th station flight (ULF7), multi-purpose logistics module (MPLM) Space Shuttle: Atlantis. Launch Pad: 39A.
The final spacewalk of the STS-134 mission, and the final spacewalk of the Space Shuttle program, was carried out on flight day 12. The EVA was conducted by Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff, who began the EVA by installing the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) on the Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment.
