How Star Trek fans changed the name of NASA’s first space shuttle
These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...
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Ex-NASA commander recounts eerie near-collision with mysterious ‘metallic’ orbs while piloting private plane
A former NASA commander has revealed that while piloting ... Astronaut Leroy Chiao, who flew in three Space Shuttle flights and was the commander on the Expedition 10, discussed the aerial ...
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Endeavour: NASA's youngest space shuttle
the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost shortly after ...
A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...
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Jimmy Carter's impact at NASA remembered as legacy lives on in the stars
In the late 1970s, NASA faced a major dilemma: the Space Shuttle program was behind schedule ... touring the facility and learning about the "crawler," the massive vehicle used to transport ...
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NASA Administrator Pays Tribute to President Carter
NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from Earth, carries a message from President Carter in 1978 that ...
Firefly Aerospace’s first lunar lander will shuttle 10 NASA payloads to the moon
The Austin-area space firm’s Blue Ghost mission will gather more information about deep space and lunar environments for ...
On this date: Nixon directs NASA to build space shuttle program
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program.
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Jimmy Carter's impact on space program remembered as legacy lives on in the stars
THIS IS CARTER, WIFE, ROSALYNN, AND DAUGHTER AMY LEARNING ABOUT THE CRAWLER ... exploration.In the late 1970s, NASA faced a major dilemma: the Space Shuttle program was behind schedule, over ...