NASA's space shuttles are gearing up to make their final voyages — this time flying piggyback a special Boeing 747 jet on the way to museum retirement homes. The space shuttle Discovery, which flew its last mission in March 2011, has been undergoing prep for museum life at the Kennedy Sp...
NASA re-designed the SRB joints, implemented new rules regarding launches in cold weather, and built a new system for the crew to escape from the shuttle during ascent. Space Shuttle Liftoff The two orbital maneuvering systems' (OMS) engines are located in pods on the aft section ...
NASA re-designed the SRB joints, implemented new rules regarding launches in cold weather, and built a new system for the crew to escape from the shuttle during ascent. Space Shuttle Liftoff The two orbital maneuvering systems' (OMS) engines are located in pods on the aft section ...
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The type of space flight the shuttles would engage in was unknown at the time, and the Shuttle Program changed everything. If there were some missteps along the way, so what? Nobody was harmed. You don't get where NASA is without trying ideas, testing them, then abandoning ones that,...
The hang glider's wing, called a delta wing or Rogallo wing, is an outgrowth of NASA engineer Francis Rogallo's research on kites and parachutes in the 1960s. Rogallo had proposed the wing as a method of returning spacecraft to Earth. The delta-wing parachute was lightweight, durabl...
Space shuttle Atlantis will land for the last time on July 21, but NASA can't use real shuttles for landing practice. See how astronauts practice landing the final shuttle mission.
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Following the Columbia disaster, NASA grounded its remaining fleet of three shuttles as the space agency sought to parse what went wrong. “We spent the next year-plus … trying to encourage the (NASA) culture to put safety first and, most importantly, to ensure that people that had dissenti...