Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down for the final time, July 21, 2011, at the end of STS-135. Empty status board in the Vehicle Assembly Building. The retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet took place from March to July 2011. Discovery was the first of the three active Space Shuttles to be retired, completing its final mission on March 9 ...
In all, NASA operated five shuttles in space. Shuttle Challenger was lost and its crew of seven died in a launch accident Jan. 28, 1986. Columbia broke apart during reentry on Feb. 1, 2003 ...
With the end of the Shuttle program, plans were made to place the three remaining Space Shuttle orbiters on permanent display. NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. announced the disposition location of the orbiters on April 12, 2011, the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight and the 30th anniversary of the first flight of Columbia.
The space shuttle's arrival in California was a homecoming for Endeavour, which rolled off Rockwell International's production line in Palmdale in 1991, replacing Challenger, which exploded after ...
The Space Shuttle is ... Columbia still had 6,000 of its 30,000 tiles remaining to ... Following the retirement of the Space Shuttle, N905NA was put on display at ...
The lengthy process of putting the retired space shuttle Endeavour on display in the vertical launch position will begin this month in Los Angeles. The California Science Center announced Thursday ...
Entrance to Kennedy Space Center, the John F. Kennedy memorial and a Space Shuttle stack in the background A Space Shuttle stack in front of the Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit building. Included in the base admission is tour-bus transportation to Launch Complex 39 and the surrounding KSC property, and the Apollo/Saturn V Center.
The positioning had to be precise. The shuttle's nose was raised 200 feet into the night sky so that the rudder could clear 80 feet of space. Endeavour was then turned 17 degrees clockwise to ...