Sierra Space Dream Chaser 'mini shuttle' space plane tests continue toward May maiden flight
Sierra Space officials announced the autonomous spacecraft successfully completed and passed testing milestones in ...
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Save 20% on the Lego Space Astronaut, one of our favorite space sets of 2024
which can also be turned into a dog or a space shuttle. One of our favorite Lego sets of last year is currently on sale thanks to Amazon. The Lego Creator 3-in-1 Space Astronaut set, which can be ...
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A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...
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Endeavour: NASA's youngest space shuttle
Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...
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On this date: Nixon directs NASA to build space shuttle program
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program. “I have decided today that the United States should proceed at ...
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The space shuttle
STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...