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Thirty Years of NASA Space Shuttle Missions
NASA's space shuttle fleet is hanging up its wings after 30 years. The first shuttle flight, STS-1, launched on April 12, 1981.
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In part two of our interview with Jose Hernandez, we ask what made him want to run for congress, what he hopes to accomplish there, and his opinion on the future of the manned space program.
In part one of our interview with Congressional candidate and former astronaut Jose Hernandez, we ask about his journey from migrant farm worker to Space Shuttle astronaut and what it's like going into space for the first time.
The quiet of the day is destroyed by the roar of a Space Shuttle rising off the pad.
The boosters will be shown with shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center.
This concept was produced by Johnson Space Center.
Once used for astronaut training, the space shuttle mockup will star in an Air Force museum
The Liberty Star spent 30 years fishing space shuttle boosters out of the Atlantic.
A space station concept drawing from 1977.
Shuttle Endeavour will be paraded through the Los Angeles streets on its way to a museum.
Depictions of Boeing's CST-100 space capsule, which the company hopes to have flying passengers by 2015.
Google’s Street View cars have taken some 6,000 panoramic images of NASA’s legendary spaceport to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It is Google Maps’ biggest specialized image collection to date.
With our Blue Marble as a back drop, two astronauts, arm in arm, run through simulations.
Space Shuttle Columbia is prepared for an upcoming launch with its payload inside.
The space shuttle program paved the way for missions that extend farther out into the solar system and beyond.
Astronaut Mark Lee tests the SAFER system.
Ride became the first American woman in space on the space shuttle Challenger's STS-7 mission.
The first American woman in Space talks about her historic flight on NASA's 50th anniversary. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983 on the STS-7 mission.
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