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AFTER THE SHUTTLE / NASA's next generation of spacecraft in the works / New design unlike shuttles -- more like earlier models. By Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer Aug 7, 2005.
Designs for the Next Space Shuttle. By ABC News. ... 2003, 1:09 PM. Feb. 10, 2003 -- When the space shuttle first launched on April 21, 1981, it opened a whole new era in space exploration for NASA.
NASA’s aging space shuttles need fixing but aren’t inherently unsafe, investigators of the Columbia disaster said in their report Tuesday, leaving open the door for a new space mission by next ...
Neighborhood shuttle service reduces parking demand in town centers, creating pedestrian-friendly business districts. Retail and services businesses, bodegas to bakeries to barber shops, benefit ...
Today, November 16, 2009, the Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched to rendezvous with the International Space Station. This will be the sixth-to-last launch for NASA's Space Shuttle program.
While today's shuttle launch will be the last "blast off" for the foreseeable future, that doesn't mean the folks at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will be getting a break any time soon.
If NASA were to decide, in the wake of the Columbia disaster, that it could no longer safely fly its remaining three orbiters, what would fly in their place? It's not an easy question to answer ...
The MBTA will close a sizable portion of the Red Line and offer shuttle service instead both this weekend and the next in ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - All systems are “go” for a July launch of space shuttle Discovery, NASA officials said Wednesday after a two-day review of the dangers posed by foam falling off the ...
The Region of Stockholm will operate the first P-12 Shuttle next year for a nine-month pilot. If successful, Candela hopes to greatly increase the number of flying electric ferries on the water, ...
NASA has cleared Atlantis for a Thursday launch, one month after the last space shuttle flight and a flurry of work since then getting the international space station ready for a new laboratory.