In the biggest change in the history of the space shuttle program, NASA is turning over day-to-day operations to private industry beginning today to save money."Today is the first day of a new space program in America," NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said Monday in announcing the $7 ...
First Fleet is an enduring photographic portrait of the early years of NASA's Space Shuttle. Between 1981 and 1986, the Shuttle program went from an R&D program to a fully operational commercial space program. Those early years were filled with excitement and optimism about the future of space...
NASA began work on an Integrated Launch and Re-entry Vehicle (ILRV) in 1968, and by 1969 the space shuttle's development received approval from then-President Richard Nixon. The original vision of the space shuttle program was to develop a vehicle that would launch into space very ...
The shuttle Columbia lifts off on the first space shuttle mission ever, STS-1, on April 12, 1981. (Image credit: NASA) When NASA's space shuttle program was announced back in 1972, it was billed as a major advance — a key step in humanity's quest to exploit and explore space. ...
See Space Shuttle Atlantis up-close at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. This exhibit celebrates the incredible story of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
Now, museums located across the nation can request the same pieces of space history that U.S. schools and universities have received since the end of the space agency's shuttle program in 2011. For 30 years, NASA stocked its shuttle pantry with shrimp cocktail and spaghetti with meat sauce,...
她考取私人飞行执照,大学修习航空工程,上天眷顾般地进入NASA,参与肯尼迪航天中心(Kennedy Space Center)当时正重启的航天飞行计划(Space Shuttle Program),做着她梦寐以求的工作:协助人类飞向太空。只是她未曾想过,有一天,自己也能飞出大气层。 “在经历10年的工程师工作后,我开始更关注宇航员在做什么,因为我们的任...
《Celebrating 30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program》 1981年,NASA发射了首个航天飞机。在之后的30年时间里,NASA的哥伦比亚号、挑战者号、发现号、亚特兰蒂斯号和奋进号航天飞机先后共执行了135次任务,帮助建造国际空间站,发射、回收和维修卫星,开展科学研究,激励了几代人。2011年7月21日,最后一次航天飞机任务——...
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