NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced recently that he would be taking part in the ceremony to inaugurate the Space Shuttle Pavilion. The permanent exhibit will be opened this Thursday, July 19, on New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
The entire museum is located aboard a decommissioned Wor... |
18 July 2012
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Engineers at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, are seen in this image as they were conducting work to install replica shuttle main engine (RSME) number 2 on the orbiter Atlantis.
The spacecraft is currently located inside the Orbiter Processing Facility-1 (OPF-1). Three such replicas are scheduled to... |
28 June 2012
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Engineers at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) have powered down the electrical systems on space shuttle Endeavour for the last time, as the vehicle is being prepared for delivery to its new home. The spacecraft – currently located in the KSC Orbiter Processing Facility-2 (OPF-2) – is scheduled to be fl... |
12 May 2012
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 (TDRS-4) has been retired from active service after more than 23 years of operations in Earth's orbit. The mission was originally planned for a lifespan of only 10 years.
The communications spacecraft was launched aboa... |
9 May 2012
04:02 GMT |
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During a hearing that took place on Capitol Hill on October 12, lawmakers were told that they may very well quit the notion of having the newly-retired American space shuttles brought back to active service. A panel of experts said that it's finally time for everyone to move on.
Members of the panel said that... |
14 October 2011
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Officials with the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Space Center Houston (SCH) said recently that they will display a shuttle in Texas, even if the American space agency decided not to give any of the three remaining orbiters to the JSC.
According to the final NASA decision, Atlantis will go to the Kennedy Space C... |
5 October 2011
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According to an announcement made by NASA officials on Tuesday, August 2, a piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia was discovered recently in Texas. The finding comes 8 years after the 2003 tragedy that saw the orbiter disintegrating during atmospheric reentry, killing all 7 crew members.The disaster was cau... |
3 August 2011
14:01 GMT |
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When the space shuttle Atlantis will take off for the International Space Station (ISS) – on the last mission of the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) – it will carry a robotic experiment that could very easily change the way satellites are designed and built. The orbiter will carry the Robotic Refueling Missio... |
14 June 2011
04:44 GMT |
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With Discovery having already flown its last mission, and Endeavor about to take off on its last spaceflight ever too, excitement is growing among museums ahead of a planned announcement that would finally reveal where the shuttles will be displayed. The last offers are now pouring in.Museums are competing against ea... |
30 March 2011
03:38 GMT |
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With the three shuttles in the American space program scheduled to be retired by July 2011, there is currently a lot of talk about what will happen to the spacecraft. The official version is that they will be heading out to various museums, but a company is currently proposing that they keep flying. The catch is that... |
9 February 2011
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Recent developments appear to indicate that the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington DC and the NASA Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, will receive a space shuttle each, for permanent display. The soon-to-be-retired orbiters don't yet have an official home, but preparations at the two facilit... |
17 December 2010
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Three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) will return to Earth ahead of schedule, due to the fact that a security conference is scheduled to take place around their landing site at the time when they were originally set to land. The international security summit will take place in Astana, the capi... |
18 November 2010
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The American space agency has teamed up with online marketplace Etsy to bring a new competition to the website's largely-female fanbase. The winner gets to attend a NASA shuttle launch. Etsy has a very solid fan base, numbering around 5.5 million users, of which more than 96 percent are women. The site is a port... |
15 October 2010
09:21 GMT |
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The six astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavor have overnight conducted the first heat shield inspection of the STS-130 mission. The spacecraft is currently on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), where it's due to arrive tomorrow, February 10, at 12:09 am EST (05:09 GMT). According to officia... |
9 February 2010
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