Space Shuttle: The End of An Era - National Air and Space Museum
2011年8月10日 · I had my first glimpse of the end of the shuttle era in April, three months before Atlantis touched down from the final shuttle mission. Discovery had just completed its last …
Patch, Space Shuttle Program, "We Made History"
Dennis Jenkins, who worked on the Shuttle Program and wrote some of the definitive operational histories of the Shuttle, gave this patch to the Museum in 2012. Display Status. This object is …
Why Has It Been 50 Years Since Humans Went to the Moon?
2022年12月16日 · The Space Shuttle finally orbited in 1981, after thin NASA budgets and challenging new technologies caused years of delay. With a new, space enthusiast president …
The Last Space Shuttle Mission - National Air and Space Museum
2011年8月8日 · I was thrilled to be a part of the NASA Tweetup for STS-135 July 7 and 8 at Kennedy Space Center. It was exciting — and almost surreal — to be there for the end of the …
Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned
Accessible and informative to general readers and aerospace professionals alike, Space Shuttle Legacy opens new vistas in the understanding of the Space Shuttle program and its place in …
Apollo program - National Air and Space Museum
Many are familiar with Apollo 11, the mission that landed humans on the Moon for the first time. It was part of the larger Apollo program.
Human Spaceflight - National Air and Space Museum
Not content to master flight in the atmosphere, inventors, engineers, scientists, and visionaries pressed ahead to explore space and developed the technology for human spaceflight. With …
Launch Complex 39: From Saturn to Shuttle to SpaceX and SLS
2020年5月22日 · Space Shuttle Atlantis launches from Pad 39A on the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program. After the last shuttle mission in 2011, NASA, once again looking for ways to …
Preserving Launch Infrastructure - National Air and Space Museum
2023年7月5日 · The Space Shuttle program was able to reuse the three Apollo-era MLs with some modifications. These reconfigured platforms with the towers removed were given new …
The Space Shuttle at 40 - National Air and Space Museum
That’s not science fiction – that’s the reality of the Space Shuttle Program! From 1981 to 2011, space shuttles flew astronauts and payloads to space and then returned to Earth, like a plane …
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