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- Ten years ago today, the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time, signalling the end of an era for United States space agency NASA. The iconic orbiter that was synonymous with space travel had finally retired.
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13-day space station construction mission. Discovery will be the first of NASA's three remaining operational Space Shuttles to be retired as the space program winds down. The STS-134 mission marks the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour.
May 21, 2020 · With next week's historic SpaceX launch, this era of reliance may be coming to an end. But why did NASA retire the space shuttle even though the space agency had no alternative launch vehicle?
Jul 9, 2021 · It is now more than 10 years since a Space Shuttle last launched from Kennedy Space Center, marking the end of the reusable orbiter era. The last Shuttle to launch was Atlantis on STS-135, the 135th mission in the Space Shuttle programme.
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NASA debuted its space shuttle following the glory days of the Apollo era. A magnificent machine, the winged craft — which launched like a rocket and landed like a plane — was capable of flying multiple times. In total, NASA sent five of these flying machines into space: Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, and Endeavor (a sixth shuttle, the ...
Well before the shuttle’s wheels touched down during that final mission in 2011, NASA knew it was headed on a different path. Elon Musk had founded SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of eventually launching humans into space. And Boeing was already a major player in the aerospace industry. In 2014, NASA awardedBoeing a $4.2bn contract and SpaceX a $2.6bn...
Sandy Magnus, a former NASA astronaut who also flew on the final shuttle mission, told Al Jazeera that the current vehicles being launched in space are part of the shuttle programme’s legacy. “You can see the shuttles in museums and then watch the vehicles they helped inspire actually launch people,” Magnus said. Nicole Stott, a former NASA astrona...
Jul 8, 2021 · July 8 marks one decade since the last NASA space shuttle flight launched. Here are eight pivotal moments from the space shuttle era.
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
Jul 8, 2021 · atlantis is now housed at the kennedy space center visitor complex the retirement of the shuttles led to several years of economic challenges for the space coast and made steep layoffs at the...
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