Space Shuttle program - National Air and Space Museum
Sep 6, 2023 · The Space Shuttle program ran from presidential approval in 1972 to its end in 2011. It was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the United States and NASA. The Space …
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum
Space Shuttle Discovery Discovery is an example of a Space Shuttle orbiter, a component of NASA’s Space Transportation System (STS). The STS consisted of a combination of a Space Shuttle orbiter, …
The First Space Shuttle: 40 Years Since STS-1
Apr 12, 2021 · The legacy of the Space Shuttle program was to some degree built around the results of its very first mission. The reusable spaceplane, the Space Shuttle, ushered in a new era of human …
Sally Ride - National Air and Space Museum
Ride joined NASA in 1978, one of the first six women to be selected by NASA as astronauts. She was named a mission specialist for Space Shuttle Challenger 's STS-7 mission in 1983 and flew on a …
Kalpana Chawla: The First South Asian American Woman in Space
Feb 1, 2023 · The crew of STS-107, Space Shuttle Columbia ’s 28th and final mission. (Image courtesy of NASA) Chawla posthumously received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and Congressional …
LEGO: Shuttle Carrier Aircraft set
May 6, 2025 · The Boeing 747 features an elegant fuselage design, deployable 18-wheel landing gear, and a specialized shuttle mounting system, ready to carry history on its back. Meanwhile, the NASA …
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center - National Air and Space Museum
The Udvar-Hazy Center displays thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including the Space Shuttle Discovery and a Concorde, in two large hangars.
A new podcast about Space Shuttle, Sixteen Sunsets with Kevin Fong.
Nov 5, 2024 · To survive, NASA gambles on a radical new program: the Space Shuttle - a reusable spacecraft promising a new era of spaceflight, but it comes at a cost – a Faustian bargain with the …
Launch Complex 39: From Saturn to Shuttle to SpaceX and SLS
May 22, 2020 · It is the same one used by the last NASA astronauts to launch from American soil, the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew in July 2011. Indeed, Launch Complex 39 A and B have been the site of …
Shuttle Service to DC - National Air and Space Museum
Apr 19, 2012 · Much to the delight of large crowds below, Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), made several passes over the Washington, DC area …