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NASA Announces Space Shuttle Program Update

NASA managers will brief media about the Space Shuttle Program and the next mission (STS-121), at 2 p.m. EST, Tuesday at the press site at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. It will air live on the Web and ...

Texas and the Smithsonian are locked in a custody battle over a space shuttle

Two senators earmarked $85 million for the move to Houston—but safely shipping an 86-ton shuttle orbiter cross-country could ...
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NASA’S Space Shuttle Program Update Rescheduled for April 28

NASA has rescheduled Thursday’s news conference on the Space Shuttle Program and processing for the next shuttle mission (STS-121). Program manager Wayne Hale will brief the media Friday, April 28, at ...
Space Coast Daily

NASA Honors Late Astronaut John Fabian With Remembrance Wreath at Space Shuttle Atlantis

NASA Astronaut John Fabian at Kennedy Space Center previewing the last Shuttle mission. July 2011. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – ...

Why NASA's space shuttle hitched rides on top of a Boeing 747

Although the Space Shuttle was capable of rocket-powered rides to space, it required the help of a Boeing 747 for earthbound transportation.
Reuters

Timeline: NASA's 30-year space shuttle program winding down

(Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. Shuttle Endeavour is due to launch on Friday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...
Southeast Missourian

Accident raises questions about future of NASA shuttle program

NASA put shuttle launches on hold following the Columbia disaster, clouding the future of missions including assembly of the international space station, which has three astronauts aboard. Even with ...