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. …
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most utilized orbiter. Discovery was flown on 39 …
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. …
Medal, First Space Shuttle Flight Achievement Award, Sally Ride
This First Shuttle Flight Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Sally K. Ride in recognition for her contribution to the sucess of the first orbital space shuttle flight, STS-1.
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 …
Remembering Columbia, Over Fifteen Years Later - National Air …
Feb 9, 2018 · Over fifteen years after the Columbia tragedy, Michael D. Leinbach, Space Shuttle Launch Director, and Jonathan H. Ward, space historian, look back at the harrowing process …
Move Space Shuttle Discovery to Texas
Nov 4, 2025 · The Space Shuttle program was one of America’s most extraordinary collective achievements. Thousands of people across the nation contributed their expertise, ingenuity, …
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 …
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 …
A new podcast about Space Shuttle, Sixteen Sunsets with Kevin …
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 …