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 ...

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If you've already built your Space Shuttle in CityVille, you can now launch the shuttle into outer space, as a new series of ...
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Space Shuttle & Skycrapers: How to See NASA's Enterprise Fly Over NYC

This story was updated at 12:20 p.m. EDT. NEW YORK — For the second time in as many weeks, a NASA space shuttle is set to take flight on top of a jumbo jet, offering an overhead spectacle as it flies ...
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NASA’s ‘flying bathtub’ taught the Space Shuttle how to land

The postwar decades crackled with technological ambition. As defense contractors sketched the future of aviation, the space race accelerated with new spacecraft designs. Amid this ferment, a quieter ...
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Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

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 ...

Eileen Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle. A new documentary shows how she got there

‘Spacewoman’ chronicles how Collins persevered against odds to become the first female space shuttle pilot and commander. The ...
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NASA's first Space Shuttle astronaut selection redefining the right stuff David J. Shayler, Colin Burgess

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...