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Elon Musk said SpaceX would decommission its Dragon spacecraft "immediately" after Trump threatened his government contracts ...
The space shuttle Discovery blasted off into orbit Tuesday ... NASA managers said they would take several days to make a full judgment of any damage to the shuttle and decide how to deal with ...
With no more shuttle carrier aircraft (SCAs), the agency has no more use for the Kennedy Space Center mate-demate facility used to pull the spacecraft off them ... "NASA will not take the lead ...
Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts lost at sea, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger ...
The space shuttle concept was a remarkable pivot: Reusable, winged orbiters would take off strapped to rockets, sail through Earth’s orbit and glide to an airplane-esque runway landing.
The other is a NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter ... "The SR-71 Blackbird is designed to take off under its own power and accelerate itself to its high cruising speed," Amy Pritchett, head of the ...
It will take a long time to get over ... NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another ...
A History Channel dive team found a twenty-foot segment of the 1986 Space Shuttle ... off Cape Canaveral were not revealed. NASA says it “is considering what additional actions it may take ...