When the space shuttle Atlantis blasts off on Friday, it will mark the final NASA shuttle mission ever. But the shuttering of the 30-year-old program isn’t the end of American space exploration — in ...
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Shannon Airport was an emergency landing spot for the Space Shuttle if multiple engines failed
SHANNON AIRPORT WAS proposed as a potential “emergency landing” site for the NASA Space Shuttle after a change in the launch plans for the now-defunct spacecraft some thirty years ago. According to ...
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On this day: Space Shuttle Challenger is lost
On this day in 1986, millions watched on live TV as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded moments after launch, Eliot Wilson remembers On this day 40 years ago, NASA was preparing to launch the 25th ...
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