Click to open image viewer. This NASA pin was owned by Dr. Sally K. Ride. The pin depicts the emblem of the Shuttle-Mir program, a collaboration between the American and Russian space programs.

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The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

From 1981 to 2011, the space shuttle flew 135 missions and carried 355 people into space. It launched satellites. It deployed (then later fixed) the Hubble Telescope. It was instrumental in building ...

Dr. Sega founded the CSU Systems Engineering program in 2007; after serving as Under Secretary of the Air Force and Director of Defense Research and Engineering. He flew two NASA missions on the space ...

(Reuters) - Space shuttles have played a pivotal role in the U.S. space program. They made their debut in 1981 and enabled NASA to learn how to live and work in orbit. But the workhorse spacecraft ...

A new educational program using simulated space exploration was announced today to commemorate the Space Shuttle Challenger Mission STS 51-L that ended tragically on January 28, 1986. The program, ...

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...

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