Twenty-nine organizations expressed interest in displaying an orbiter in response to the space agency's first request for proposals in 2008. Since then, eight have dropped out, leaving 21 museums, science centers and visitor centersvying for a retired shuttle. Get the Space.com Newsletter Breaking...
Political-style campaign buttons made by Ohio, New York and Houston museums promote their being given a space shuttle. March 29, 2011 — With only two weeks remaining before NASA announces where its space shuttles will be retired for public display, museums nationwide are putting forth their fin...
The retired shuttle has now been hoisted into the air and placed into a launch-ready position where it will live in the upcoming200,000-square-foot center, forever. The California Science Center’s educational area is set to be doubled by this new center, which will also feature three mult...
On its last trip into space, the orbiter tacked more than 6 million miles onto its odometer, bringing the shuttle's total distance travelled to over 122 million miles. NASA has one final shuttle mission planned before its 30-year space shuttle program is retired for good. The STS-135 flig...
The article reports on the transfer of the retired space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The author mentions that Discovery was first launched on August 30, 1984, helping deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. She states that the retirement is part of the National...
NASA resumed shuttle flights in 1988 and by the time thefleet was retired in 2011, 220 solid-fuel boosters had been successfully launched on 110 shuttle missions, all without incident. Challenger Center founding family members (left to right): Charles Resnik, brother of astronaut Judy Resnik; Ch...
The 52nd reusable solid rocket motor (RSRM) ground test since the first was fired July 18, 1977, the two minute and three second horizontal "launch" was performed in support of NASA's remaining four shuttle missions before the fleet is retired later this year. ...
The space shuttle represented not just a change in accessing space but also how NASA interacted with the public. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines how the agency sought to involve the public more in spaceflight to help secure its support.Monday, June 24, 2024 Things that almost go boom...
Endeavouris one of four remaining space shuttles, all of which were retired in 2011. The prototypeEnterprisenever flew into space, and is currently displayed on the deck of the aircraft carrierIntrepid.DiscoveryreplacedEnterpriseat the National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chan...
The flight — the long-held dream of SpaceX founder Elon Musk — would have marked the first time a private company sent humans into orbit. It would have also ended a launch drought for NASA. Ever since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian spaceships launched...