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DOD mission, was to have been the first shuttle mission flown from Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and would have been the first shuttle to launch into a polar orbit. Astronauts Guy Gardner, Mullane, and Ross would fly together on STS-27, commanded by Robert L. Gibson, and with William Shepherd rounding out the crew, with ...
Many other planned missions were canceled due to the late development of the shuttle, and the Challenger and Columbia disasters. Four missions were cut short by a day or more while in orbit: STS-2 (equipment failure), [ 22 ] STS-35 (weather), [ 102 ] STS-44 (equipment failure), [ 193 ] and STS-83 (equipment failure, relaunched as STS-94 ).
Pages in category "Cancelled Space Shuttle missions" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Gravity and Extreme Magnetism - 2012; International X-ray Observatory - 2011; Terrestrial Planet Finder - 2011; Laser Interferometer Space Antenna - 2011; Space Interferometry Mission - 2010
After nine missions in 1985, the most in any calendar year, policies called for increasing to as many as 24 flights annually. ... The space shuttle flight program came to a close on July 21, 2011 ...
Cancelled Space Shuttle missions (11 P) Cancelled space stations (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Cancelled space missions" The following 14 pages are in this category ...
Shuttle program ended 12 years ago. But now the world's busiest spaceport is rewriting another record for 2023: The number of orbital rocket launches. Years after space shuttle retirement, Florida ...
All Space Shuttle missions were launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Some civilian and military circumpolar space shuttle missions were planned for Vandenberg AFB in California. However, the use of Vandenberg AFB for space shuttle missions was canceled after the Challenger disaster in 1986.