Space Shuttle Discovery launches on July 26, 2005. On July 26, 2005, after two years of investigation and reform, Discovery’s STS-114 mission marked the shuttle program’s return to flight following the Columbia disaster. Led by commander Eileen Collins, the mission tested new safety protocol...
A related, but economically much smaller, commercial space business is the provision of launches for private and government satellites. In 2004 a privately financed venture sent a piloted spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, to the lower edge of space for three brief suborbital flights. Although it was ...
Space shuttle Atlantis is seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) as it launches from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the STS-135 mission, July 8, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the final shuttle mission.(Image credit: NASA/Dick Clark) Space sh...
killing the seven astronauts on board. NASA again halted shuttle launches, and a special commission was appointed to investigate the accident. It is believed that damage to the left wing, which could have been caused by insulation that separated from the external fuel tank during...
Challenger was the second of fifteen planned shuttle launches in 1986—six more than the year before. Launches had become so routine that none of the three network television stations broadcast Challenger live—only CNN and a few local stations. However, NASA set up a special feed to McAuliffe...
My results suggest discontinuing the Shuttle program made payroll in Brevard County on average $824 million lower than the counterfactual outcome for every year since the final Shuttle mission, for a cumulative reduction in payroll of $3.3 billion below potential by 2015. In percentage terms, ...
Although similar incidents had occurred on three prior shuttle launches without causing critical damage, some engineers at the space agency believed that damage to a wing could cause a catastrophic failure. Their concerns were not addressed in the two weeks that Columbia spent in orbit because NASA...
Bill Gerstenmeyer, NASA's associate director for space operations, played down the impact of the lengthy Atlantis delay on next year's shuttle launches, some of the last before the fleet's scheduled retirement in 2010. "We are all a little bit disappointed we did not to get to see a la...
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before it hits DVD in April. In case you forgot (and you know how much we love reminding you of things), we interviewedShuttledirectorEdward Andersonlast year on FEARnet when his flick played SXSW. Nearly a year later, you're finally being given the chance to check out the flick for ...