A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.
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A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
The Discovery, recently completed at Palmdale ... The Air Force has spent $2.5 billion to build the space shuttle launch complex. Construction included the pouring of 250,000 cubic yards of ...
ISRO gears up for SpaDEX launch: All you need to know
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is on the cusp of a significant achievement with its SpaDeX mission, scheduled ...
ISRO's SpaDeX Mission A First Step For India To Set Up Its Own Space Station
Only three countries in the world - United States, Russia, and China - have the ability to carry out docking of two ...
After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites
The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...
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Remembering President Carter
NASA President Jimmy Carter, wife Rosalynn, and daughter Amy, along with Kennedy Space Center Director Lee Scherer, look at a ...
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Why must a Space Shuttle make a backflip when engaging with the International Space Station?
From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip, called the R-bar Pitch Manoeuvre or Rendezvous Pitch ...
New documentary focuses on Christa McAuliffe's impact as a teacher in New Hampshire
A new documentary focuses more on how Christa McAuliffe still inspires others as a teacher and less on her fate aboard the ...
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New documentary focuses on Christa McAuliffe's impact as a teacher in New Hampshire
McAuliffe taught that class, too. Bleier was a sixth-grader when she watched the space shuttle launch on television. She recalled how devastating it was. "I don't want to watch the shuttle blow up ...