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The Lessons We Learned from Space Shuttle Enterprise

February 18, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter On this day 36 years ago, two astronauts aboard the space shuttle Enterprise took the ship out for its initial test flight. It landed on the back of a 747 before undertaking a series of free flights starting in June that [...]

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How to Steal a Space Shuttle

October 6, 2012

For two days, from October 12 to 13, the shuttle Endeavour will be transported along 12 miles of road on the final leg of its journey to the California Science Center. During that time the orbiter will be the most publicly exposed as it’s ever been, a national treasure on the streets of LA. While [...]

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Fly Over California Alongside a Space Shuttle!

September 24, 2012

A view of Endeavour and SCA over California from one of NASA’s F/A-18 chase planes (NASA/DFRC) We’ve shared several videos from Endeavour’s trip to Los Angeles last week, taken by excited spectators along various portions of the flight path, but what was it like for the crews of the two NASA F/A-18 chase planes that [...]

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NASA’s Colossal Crawler Gets Souped-Up for SLS

September 6, 2012

Shuttle Discovery riding one of KSC’s crawler-transporters to Launch Pad 39B in June 2005 (NASA) One of NASA’s two iconic crawler-transporters — the 2,750-ton monster vehicles that have delivered rockets from Saturns to Shuttles to launch pads at Kennedy Space Center for nearly half a century — is getting an upgrade in preparation for NASA’s [...]

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Former Astronaut Criticizes NASA’s Current Course

May 14, 2012

Former NASA astronaut Story Musgrave is neither happy nor excited about the current state of the space administration or about the commercial COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) program. He’s not happy, and he’s not afraid to say so. “The whole thing is chaos and a cop out. The whole thing is a Washington failure,” Musgrave [...]

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