... Services (CRS) programme, was designed to fill the gap in orbital transportation following the retirement of the Space Shuttle. Under this programme, NASA provided funding and technical support, resulting in the development of private cargo supply...
...the outsize cargoes. Three sites built long, adjacent shuttle runways: Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg and Baikonur. Structures..., an imitative version of which was also built at the shuttle’s other base of Vandenberg, California, although it has never been...
... a Spanish astronaut, Pedro Duque, back in October 1998 on Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-95) on a nine-day flight (Mr Duque went on ... first Spanish astronaut to go into orbit on the Space Shuttle STS-95 Discovery mission in October 1998. He is pictured...
... program for our collective current woes: @carlosfugazi @BadAstronomer I blame DC. Knew for literally decades of shuttles eventual end but utterly failed to plan a timely replacement — Eric Berger (@chronsciguy) July 3, 2015 Sunday, meanwhile, is ...
...’s historic pad since it was last used for the Space Shuttle program almost six years ago. Following liftoff on the SpaceX Falcon... without manned launch capabilities since 2011 when the Space Shuttle program ended, with a 20-year lease under its belt...
...launched rockets that carried astronauts to the Moon and Space Shuttle crews into Earth orbit a big, new American rocket... of sightseers, crowds not seen since NASA's last space shuttle flight seven years ago. Scores of journalists packed the space...