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title: STS-1 - Wikipedia

text: STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched ... He would fly the Shuttle again on the STS-9 mission, a ten-day flight in 1983. Let's not practice ...

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text: On April 12, 1981, NASA launched the first space shuttle into orbit.

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title: How the Space Shuttle Was Born - Space.com

text: 2011/06/28 - The shuttle Columbia lifts off on the first space shuttle mission ever, STS-1, on April 12, 1981. ... The story of the shuttle's birth is one of big dreams and slashed budgets, of shifting visions, of NASA and the nation's attempt to find their way in space after beating the Soviets to the .... The first stage would then fly back to Earth and land like an airplane, while the orbiter cruised ...

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title: Columbia: First Shuttle in Space

text: 2017/11/30 - The shuttle Columbia lifts off on the first space shuttle mission ever, STS-1, on April 12, 1981. Credit: NASA ... STS-93 was scheduled to fly on July 20, 1999, to send the Chandra X-Ray Observatory into space. A suspected ...

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title: Photos: NASA's First Space Shuttle Flight: STS-1 - Space.com

text: 2013/04/12 - Take a photo look at NASA's first space shuttle mission STS-1, which launched the shuttle Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981 with astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen.

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title: Enterprise: The Test Shuttle - Space.com

text: 2012/10/09 - The first space shuttle, now on display at the Intrepid museum, prepared astronauts for future missions. ... Enterprise was used in five "drop tests" in California, allowing NASA astronauts to get a feel for how the shuttle would fly ...

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title: 'To Fly the First One': 40 Years Since the First Space Shuttle Crews ...

text: 2018/03/11 - Bob Crippen had been an astronaut for almost nine years, yet was still awaiting his first spaceflight. This was the best news of his career. “I had anticipated that I would get to fly on one of the shuttle flights, early on,” he told the ...

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title: 5 Horrifying Facts You Didn't Know About the Space Shuttle - Forbes

text: 2012/04/18 - But many of my friends and I are celebrating yesterday's piggy-backed final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian ... of Soviet-era cosmonauts, but unsubstantiated rumors suggest that there may have been Soviet casualties in the early days of the space race.) 2. ... Each Shuttle was supposed to fly fifty missions per year…yet it averaged approximately four ...

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title: John Young, moon astronaut and first to fly shuttle, dies aged 87 ...

text: 2018/01/06 - George HW Bush salutes 'courage and commitment' of 'fearless patriot' who was the first man to fly into space six times.

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title: John Young, Who Led First Space Shuttle Mission, Dies at 87 | afr.com

text: 2018/01/07 - John Young, who walked on the moon, commanded the first space shuttle mission and became the first person to fly in space six times, has died at his home in Houston, aged 87. His death was announced by the acting ...

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title: 7 Things You Didn't Know About NASA's First Space Shuttle Mission

text: 2017/08/25 - NASA's STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) mission was the first time a partially reusable low Earth ... the first aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound, and the North American X-15, which actually reached space ...

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title: Boeing: Historical Snapshot: Space Shuttle Orbiter

text: Its legacy of information was incorporated into the next shuttle, the Columbia (OV-102). On April 12, 1981, the Columbia was the first Space Shuttle to fly into orbit. During its 27 flights between 1981 and 2002, the Columbia's achievements ...

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title: A repeat of the space shuttle's bold test flight? NASA considers crew ...

text: 2017/03/23 - NASA said it will only considering adding a crew to the first SLS flight if the mission would be ready to fly in ... John Young (left) and Bob Crippen pose for a crew portrait prior to STS-1, the first flight of space shuttle Columbia, ...

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title: John Young, only person to walk on moon, fly space shuttle, dies at 87 ...

text: 2018/01/07 - One of only 12 humans to walk on the moon and commander of Nasa's first space shuttle mission, Young died on Friday following complications from pneumonia. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

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title: Astronaut Eileen Collins on What It Was Like to Fly the Space Shuttle

text: 2011/07/06 - Eileen Collins was the first female space shuttle pilot and first female shuttle commander. With the shuttle program coming to a close this week, she tells PM what it was like to fly this vehicle and what its legacy should be.

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title: SpaceX and Boeing are running out of time to fly astronauts into space

text: 2018/07/17 - The US commercial crew program evolved to replace the Space Shuttle, which flew for the last time in 2011. ... At the time, SpaceX hoped to launch its first astronauts in 2016, and Boeing in 2017, with both ready for operations ...

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title: NASA names first astronaut crews to fly SpaceX, Boeing space missions

text: 2018/08/03 - In a historic first, NASA has named several astronaut crews that will fly the first commercial spaceships, built by ... NASA started the Commercial Crew Program in 2010, just before it retired the last space shuttle in July 2011.

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title: Enterprise: The First Space Shuttle | Mental Floss

text: 2011/07/05 - Atlantis, the last to fly, will be retired to a museum as will the recently-flown shuttles Endeavour and Discovery. ... NASA planned to name the first space shuttle Constitution, to commemorate the nation's bicentennial in 1976.

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title: space shuttle | Names, Definition, Facts, & History | Britannica.com

text: 2018/08/24 - Space shuttle, also called Space Transportation System, partially reusable rocket-launched vehicle designed to go ... Between 1981 and 1985 a fleet of four orbiters—Columbia (the first to fly in space), Challenger, Discovery, ...

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title: About Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum

text: Discovery also flew every type of mission during the space shuttle era and has a record of distinctions. ... (1997, 1999); Highest crew count: 251; First non-astronaut to fly on space shuttle, Charles Walker (1984); Flown aboard Discovery: Sen.

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title: Why does space shuttle fly up with its belly upward and its back ...

text: Not only does the Space Shuttle fly with the windows pointed towards the Earth (upside down)... but it flies backwards as well. The tail of the spacecraft precedes the nose. The reasons for this are simple. First off, is the sun. The sun has ...

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title: Space Shuttle Enterprise – The Orbiter that started it all ...

text: 2012/04/27 - On 26 July 1972, NASA officially awarded the contract for construction for its very first Space Shuttle orbiter to .... For the final two ALT flights, Enterprise would fly in “orbital” configuration, with three mock Space Shuttle Main ...

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title: Commander of 1st flight of space shuttle Challenger dies - Orlando ...

text: 2017/10/24 - Paul Weitz, a retired NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also ... the new space shuttle Challenger sits behind the four astronauts that will fly it during turnover ceremonies at ...

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title: What's It Like to Fly the Space Shuttle? We Find Out | WIRED

text: 2010/03/26 - Of course it helps when the simulator is a replica of the space shuttle cockpit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. On a recent assignment for AOPA Pilot magazine, I arrived early for an interview with Ken Ham, ...

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title: Space Shuttle Columbia Fast Facts - CNN - CNN.com

text: 2018/01/28 - Born in Karnal, India, Chawla was the first native of India to fly in the US space shuttle and was one of the 6 astronaut crew that flew Columbia on its 24th flight in November-December 1997. She was survived by husband, ...

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title: Could NASA Bring the Space Shuttles Back Out of Retirement?

text: 2012/02/08 - The space shuttle Discovery stands ready for liftoff at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. ... commercial companies in partnerships with NASA would have already built spacecraft able to fly to and from the ISS. ... First off, to make the shuttles safe for museum life upon their retirement, a number of parts had to be removed from them, Launius said.

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title: 7 Notable Space Shuttle Astronauts - Live Science

text: 2011/07/01 - Even before Robert Crippen piloted the first flight of the space shuttle program, he had put together an ... This also made him the third seated politician to fly in space (he was serving as a U.S. senator from Ohio at the time).

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title: NASA assigns commercial crews to fly on Boeing, SpaceX spacecraft ...

text: 2018/08/03 - The space agency announced the nine men and women who will be the first to fly on new spacecraft operated by ... NASA astronauts Eric Boe, 53, and Nicole Mann, 41, will join the commander of that same final space shuttle ...

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title: The Forgotten Soviet Space Shuttle Could Fly Itself - Latest Stories

text: 2016/04/12 - The space shuttle program is history now, but its iconic names still stir memories of spaceflight adventure: .... the Energia rocket shared the same fate as Buran itself, mothballed after the 1988 launch and never to fly again.

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title: A Brief History of Space Exploration | The Aerospace Corporation

text: In 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to fly into space. On Feb. ... The Space Shuttle was the first reusable spacecraft to carry people into orbit; launch, recover, and repair satellites; conduct cutting-edge research; and help build the ...

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title: "T-9 Minutes and Counting ...": NASA's First Secret Shuttle Flight

text: 2014/01/23 - But the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery in January 1985 on Mission 51C marked a miracle of another kind. ... Since the conception of the manned spaceflight engineer programme, the intent was to fly a dedicated officer ...

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title: The History of the Space Shuttle - The Atlantic

text: 2011/07/01 - From its first launch 30 years ago to its final mission scheduled for next Friday, NASA's Space Shuttle ..... The International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour, fly at an altitude of approximately 220 miles.

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title: Space Shuttle 1981-2011 | Space | Air & Space Magazine

text: In their postflight briefing, Young (the first voice in this clip) and pilot Crippen describe their first-time return of a shuttle ... was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttle—on STS-95 in October-November 1998.

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title: Astronaut John Young, Who Flew In Space 6 Times, Dies At 87 : NPR

text: 2018/01/06 - In NASA's history, few astronauts were more accomplished than John Young. His career was filled with firsts: he was the first to fly in space six times. He was on the first Gemini mission and he commanded the first shuttle flight.

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title: NASA astronaut John Young, who flew first Space Shuttle mission ...

text: 2018/01/07 - NASA astronaut John Young, who flew the agency's first Space Shuttle mission and walked on the surface of the Moon, has ... He showed us the space shuttle trainer in Building 9, where astronauts learn how to fly the orbiter.

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title: The Shuttle's Return to Earth - Space Shuttle: Return and Landing ...

text: The Shuttle's Return to Earth - A safe space shuttle return and landing depends on dozens of factors. Learn about space ... In most cases, they have been flying nose-first and upside down, so they then fire the RCS thrusters to turn the orbiter tail first. Once the orbiter is tail ... When re-entry is successful, the orbiter encounters the main air of the atmosphere and is able to fly like ...

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title: Highlight: The Shuttle Era | Portals - Dawnbreaker, Inc.

text: Columbia: In March 1979, Colombia was the first Space Shuttle orbiter to be delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space Center and fly into orbit on STS-1. Columbia and the STS-107 crew were lost during re-entry on February 1, 2003. Further ...

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title: 'Into the Black': Book recounts untold story of first space shuttle flight ...

text: 2016/06/10 - And in first flight of the shuttle where so much was unknown despite all the testing, despite all the research. .... motors, the main engines, the only way of working out and proving that all of that worked ultimately was to fly her.

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title: NASA unveils the astronauts who will relaunch human space flights ...

text: 2018/08/03 - The new generation of pilots will fly on company spaceships. ... HOUSTON — NASA on Friday announced the crews of the first flights from U.S. soil since the space shuttle retired in 2011, an elite group of astronauts that the ...

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title: How do space rockets work? - Explain that Stuff

text: 2018/08/27 - Since the first modern liquid-fueled rocket soared to the sky in 1926, rockets have ferried about 500 people, several ... The lowest satellites (known as low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites) fly at heights above 160km or 100 miles from Earth, which is over 10 times higher than planes fly. ... This picture shows Space Shuttle mission STS-26 in 1988, when the Shuttle made its brave and ...

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title: U.S. space shuttle spawned heart pump, fly by wire - Reuters

text: 2011/07/20 - As the United States prepares to end its space shuttle program, technologies developed to nurture the reusable ... founder of the $10 million Ansari X Prize competition for the first private manned suborbital space flight.

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title: First astronaut to walk in space without a tether dies age 80 - New Atlas

text: 2017/12/23 - The former astronaut was a mission specialist on the STS-41B and STS-31 Space Shuttle missions in 1984 and 1990, respectively, and is best known for being the first person to use the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) to fly ...

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title: Astronaut John Young, who walked on moon and commanded first ...

text: 2018/01/06 - NASA called Young one of its pioneers - the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon.

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title: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 30 years ago over Florida with ...

text: 2016/01/26 - Thirty years ago this week, America witnessed a tragedy: the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger in the blue ... The Challenger crew included the first private citizen to fly on a shuttle, McAuliffe, 37, a social studies teacher ...

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title: launch - Does the space shuttle fly straight "up" when leaving ...

text: 2014/03/25 - Actually, just after liftoff the Shuttle does a roll maneuver so it will fly with the top of the orbiter facing down. This is done to ... First they have to get above the atmosphere, to keep slowing from it down to a minimum. Then they ...

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title: 747 and shuttle take off - When the space shuttle hitches a ride ...

text: The first of NASA's two Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, NASA 905, starts an early morning ascent in December 1990 with Columbia on its back. The space agency acquired the jet from American Airlines in 1974 as...

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title: Why didn't NASA use unmanned space test flights for Space Shuttle ...

text: The Space Shuttle didn't fly into space unmanned, but it did run through a series of atmospheric tests (unmanned captive flights, manned captive flights, and manned released flights) prior to it's first Space Flight. NASA also had static tests of ...

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title: NASA unveils 1st Space Shuttle, September 17, 1976 | EDN

text: 2012/09/17 - Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia. However, in the final moments of Columbia's construction design details with ...

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title: John Young, the legendary NASA astronaut who walked on the moon ...

text: 2018/01/06 - A NASA pioneer, John Young was the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times.

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text: 2018/01/20 - Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe was America's first teacher in space candidate, chosen to fly aboard the shuttle and teach lessons to children on Earth. Unfortunately, her flight ended in tragedy when the Challenger orbiter ...

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title: The legacy of Sally Ride - HoustonChronicle.com

text: 2018/06/22 - On June 24, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride returned to Earth after becoming the first American woman to fly into space, riding Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7 along with four other crew members. Only five years ...

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text: 1984/08/28 - The space agency said it expected to take the teacher aloft in late 1985 or early 1986 and thereafter would fly from ... ''It has been a goal of our space shuttle program to some day carry citizen passengers into space,'' he said.

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title: Dream Chaser Mini-Shuttle to Fly ISS Resupply Missions on ULA Atlas ...

text: 2017/07/25 - The first two missions of the unmanned Dream Chaser mini-shuttle carrying critical cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA will fly on the most powerful version of the Atlas V rocket and start as soon as 2020, ...

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title: Why the Soviet space shuttle was left to rot | Popular Science

text: 2015/06/16 - Last week, Russian photographer Ralph Mirebs posted an album of the Soviet shuttle languishing in a hangar. ... Formally called the Reusable Space System, this new spacecraft could, like its American counterpart, fly missions as short as a day and as long as a month, but unlike .... Like so many new programs, Buran's first flight was slated to be a two-orbit unmanned shakedown cruise.

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title: Buran Space Shuttle vs STS - Comparison

text: buran space shuttle, energia launch vehicule, rocket, space shuttle transport system, russian ... First, the cockpit of Buran is fixed on shock-absorbers inside the fuselage, to decrease the vibrations during the flight, and the front thrusters block is more voluminous. The front landing ... Compared to the advanced digital-fly-by-wire controls system of the U.S. Shuttle, the ...

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title: KSP Challenge: Build and Fly a Space Shuttle! - Page 4 - The Daily ...

text: See this article for technical details of the IRL proposed STS-107 rescue. Badges Available STS Pilot - Rank 4 Launch your first space shuttle into a 200+km orbit with a minimum of 4 crew, then send up your second shuttle to ...

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title: NASA Confirms Talks to Fly Big Bird on Doomed Shuttle Challenger

text: 2015/05/04 - For example, NBC News' Cape Canaveral correspondent, Jay Barbree, was among 40 candidates in NASA's Journalist in Space Program. The first journalist was due to fly on the shuttle Challenger in September 1986.

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title: Space Shuttle Atlantis Zone | Kennedy Space Center

text: Stand in awe of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, a NASA icon at Kennedy Space Center. Then learn about the Hubble ... Experience your own landing by riding the re-entry slide to the first floor of Space Shuttle Atlantis. The exciting adrenaline rush ...

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title: Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the ...

text: Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who ... the impossible could be done; that a reusable, manned, winged craft could be built to routinely fly to and from earth orbit.

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text: 2017/02/28 - Two mystery space tourists put down a "significant deposit" with SpaceX to take a round-trip around the Moon, CEO ... had a vehicle of its own to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS since 2011, when the Space Shuttle program was shuttered. ... SpaceX's Moon flight will be the first truly private ticket to space.

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title: Members Remember Space Shuttle Program - AIAA

text: As NASA's space shuttle program neared its end during 2010-2011, the Institute, along with AIAA's History Technical .... who I met on several occasions, was Guy Blueford the first Black Astronaut to fly in space and on the Space Shuttle.

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title: Powering the Space Shuttle | Lockheed Martin

text: On April 12, 1981, the space shuttle Columbia launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its first official mission, beginning an era of manned spaceflight unlike any before or since. Columbia looked more like a sophisticated plane than the ...

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title: Sunita Williams to fly on NASA's commercial spacecraft in 2019 | The ...

text: 2018/08/04 - Indian-origin US astronaut Sunita Williams is among the nine astronauts named by NASA today for its first human spaceflight programme since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. After years of vehicle development ...

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text: Remember that the shuttle was to fly like a plane, more like a glider, when it landed. A working orbiter was built to ... The first flight was in 1980 with the space shuttle Columbia, piloted by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen. Columbia ...

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title: Space Shuttle Missions - JAXA

text: 2010/10/06 - Summary of Japan related Space Shuttle missions and flight results are outlined. ... STS-131 logo, ISS Assembly Flight 19A Astronaut Yamazaki to fly STS-131 ... First Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1) ...

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title: Can an origami shuttle fly from space to Earth? - ABC News

text: Takuo Toda, the head of the Japan Origami Airplane Association, had nursed the idea of flying a shuttle-shaped paper plane since NASA in 1977 launched its first space shuttle Enterprise, a craft without an engine or heat shield that was used ...

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title: Why Don't Space Shuttles Take Off Like Airplanes? » Science ABC

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text: 2016/02/01 - At 10:39 Eastern Standard Time on January 16, 2003, space shuttle Columbia lifted off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... The world of human space flight paused—first to mourn, then to discover what had happened. ... So an in-orbit rescue was at least feasible—but making a shuttle ready to fly is an incredibly complicated procedure involving millions of discrete ...

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title: Meet The Only Married Couple To Fly Together In Space | Time.com

text: Mark Lee and Jan Davis were the first married couple in space, they flew aboard. Mark Lee and Jan Davis were the first (and so far only) married couple to ... Meet The Only Married Couple To Fly Together In Space. TIME Photo. Feb 12, 2016 ...

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title: On this date in history: The final space shuttle launch – Spaceflight Now

text: 2016/07/08 - FIVE YEARS ago today — July 8, 2011 — Atlantis launched on the final space shuttle mission after 31 years as the ... The space shuttle spreads its wings one final time for the start of a sentimental journey into history.” – NASA ...

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title: IBM Archives: IBM and the Space Shuttle - IBM.com

text: IBM Archives: Exhibits: IBM Space & flight: IBM and the Space Shuttle. ... flight, the Shuttle orbiter was controlled by electrical signals generated by the digital computers — a concept called fly-by-wire ... For details on Space Shuttle history, visit:.

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title: 12 Space Shuttle Missions That Weren't - IEEE Spectrum

text: 2011/05/27 - The U.S. space shuttle fleet is set for retirement following the launch of Atlantis, scheduled for mid-July. In all, the fleet will have flown 135 missions, the first in 1981, but there were many more on the drawing board.

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title: First Space Shuttle Unveiled - National Geographic Society

text: 1976/09/17 - After Enterprise's successful atmospheric tests, NASA built five more space shuttles that went on to fly all the way into space: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. The Space Shuttle Program ended in ...

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title: Space Shuttle | Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

text: The Space Shuttle Discovery was flown to Dulles atop a modified NASA 747 on April 17, 2012. It was delivered to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum two days later. Then on April 27, the Space Shuttle Enterprise departed from ...

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title: NASA picked the two private spacecraft to replace the Space Shuttle ...

text: 2014/09/16 - NASA has selected the two spacecraft that will replace the Space Shuttle — taking astronauts to the International ... If successful, they will be the first private spacecraft to put humans in orbit. ..... has also contracted with NASA to fly cargo to the space station, and made its first resupply run in June 2014.

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title: Space Shuttle | Encyclopedia.com

text: The first shuttle actually built, the Enterprise, was flown in the atmosphere but never equipped for space flight; it is now in the ..... NASA officials also insisted that it would not have been possible to fly the shuttle in such a way as to spare the ...

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title: Who was the first woman to travel into space? | Cool Cosmos

text: The first woman to travel into space was a Soviet cosmonaut named Valentina Tereshkova. ... The first American woman to travel into space was Sally Ride who rode onboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 and 1984. Continue the ...

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title: NASA assigns astronauts for SpaceX and Boeing to launch first crews

text: 2018/08/04 - NASA announced on Friday the assignments of the first nine astronauts riding commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station. ... Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, astronauts have flown aboard Russian Soyuz — at a cost to NASA of more ... Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to fly in Crew Dragon in April 2019, launching on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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title: Space Shuttle Facts - SoftSchools

text: The space shuttle was the first piece of space exploration technology that was reusable. Although over 600 astronauts have flown to outer space on the space shuttle, only about seven can fly out at one time. The longest orbit of the space ...

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title: Blastoff from the Past: A Look Back at the Space Shuttle - MIT ...

text: 2011/07/07 - Slideshow: The final launch of Atlantis marks the end of the U.S. space shuttle program. The program was approved by President Nixon in 1972 as NASA's main undertaking after Apollo, and the first shuttle mock-up (shown ...

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title: Will Virgin Galactic ever make it to space? - Telegraph

text: 2018/01/18 - Commercial space travel still eludes Virgin Credit: PA/Virgin Galactic .... “Watching VSS Enterprise fly for the first time really brings home what beautiful, ground-breaking vehicles Burt [Rutan, of the Spaceship Company] and ...

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title: 10 Space Shuttles which never flew | Astronotes - Armagh Planetarium

text: 2011/05/12 - In 1968, NASA officially declared a goal of developing a space shuttle (or Space Transportation System) and Lockheed submitted a design based on the Starclipper to the first stage, Phase A, of this project. Phase A requested a design for a fully .... As the booster was meant to fly home again, there would be no spent rocket stages falling to Earth. Launching the Shuttle over the ocean ...

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title: Eileen Collins - Astronaut - Biography

text: In 1990, Eileen Collins was only the second woman to graduate as a test pilot and be selected as a NASA astronaut. She became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle mission during the Discovery's rendezvous with the Mir space station in ...

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title: Canadian Space Milestones - Canada.ca - Agence spatiale canadienne

text: 2018/06/21 - Canada also invests $100 million for its development contributing the first unit to to the space shuttle program. ..... Aboard Shuttle Endeavour, Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian astronaut to fly in space twice, this time ...

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title: NASA Astronauts Flying Aboard Crew Dragon | SpaceX

text: 2018/08/04 - On Friday, August 3, 2018, NASA announced the first four astronauts who will launch aboard Crew Dragon (also ... which will return human spaceflight capability to the United States for the first time since the Space Shuttle Program was retired in 2011. ... targeted for November 2018, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first two NASA astronauts to fly in the Dragon spacecraft.

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title: First Space Shuttle Mission - White Eagle Aerospace

text: 2016/04/12 - Thirty-five years ago today, the United States successfully launched the Space Shuttle Columbia into orbit ... Indeed, the STS-1 mission marked the first time that astronauts would fly a space vehicle on its inaugural flight!

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title: NASA names Sunita Williams, 8 others, for first space flights on ...

text: 2018/08/04 - The missions will mark the first crewed launches from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle programme in ... Josh Cassada, 45, will fly with Sunita (“Suni”) Williams, 52, aboard NASA's first contracted Starliner mission.

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title: Space Shuttle fast facts: Xbox 360 has more power than flight ... - AL.com

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title: First woman to ever pilot a space shuttle on how she almost ...

text: 2016/10/30 - First woman to ever pilot a space shuttle on how she almost accidentally endorsed Donald Trump ... The 59-year-old started out as an Air Force pilot, earning her wings at a time when female pilot were not allowed to fly into combat zones. ... In July 2005 she was commander for the first space shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia space disaster, in which seven astronauts lost their ...

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title: Space Shuttle Discovery DC Fly-Over (201204170012HQ) | Flickr

text: 2012/04/17 - Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), flies over the Washington skyline as seen from a NASA T-38 aircraft, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA's ...

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question: what was the first space shuttle to fly?

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