@NorthropGrumman is donating a pair of flight-worthy Solid Rocket Boosters to the #Endeavour exhibit at @casciencecenter. […]
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As @NASA marks 20 years of @Space_Station habitation, AmericaSpace looks back at STS-106, the mission which prepared the crew quarters for #Expedition1. […] 
37 years after STS-8, AmericaSpace looks back at some of the highs & lows of landing the Space Shuttle at night. […] 
OTD in 1983, #Challenger landed at night after STS-8. It was the first of 26 shuttle night landings. […] 
@NASA’s Magellan spacecraft arrived at #Venus 30yr ago today, to begin a campaign of mapping which revealed Earth’s Twisted Sister in unprecedented detail. […] 
Today, 30yrs ago, in one of the shuttle program’s greatest photo-ops, Columbia and Atlantis passed each other on their respective treks out and back to the launch pad. But why? […] 
OTD in 1995, shuttle Discovery on STS-70 tested new main engines, was run from a new Mission Control Room & a New Yorker became an honorary Ohioan. […] 
OTD in 1985, the crew of Challenger suffered a close-call on the launch pad: a shutdown of the shuttle’s main engines, seconds before liftoff. […] 
Thirty-five years ago, today, Discovery launched on an international, multi-faceted mission. Photo Credit: NASA Thirty-five years ago today, on 17 June 1985, a spacecraft roared aloft with a crew representing the largest number of nations ever flown into space and carrying the largest load of satellites ever put into space at that time by […] 
Startling the birds, Discovery spears from Pad 39B on 13 July 1995. Six weeks earlier, the antics of a pesky Northern Flicker woodpecker had caused an extensive launch delay for STS-70 and extensive embarrassment for NASA. Photo Credit: NASA Over its 30-year career, many things attacked the Space Shuttle, from lawmakers keen to cut […] |
 SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink-12 Launch delayed due to weather. Awaiting a new launch time. Click here for more details...  |
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