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In a slightly melancholic news announcement, NASA has released more details about their last space shuttle mission, which is scheduled to begin this July.
Read More »This July, NASA’s Last Shuttle Mission Blasts Off
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Relive the First Space Shuttle Launch
In 1981 the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' launched, initiating 30 years of Space Shuttle service.
Read More »Behold! This is How NASA Recovers Those Spent Rocket Boosters
Have you ever wondered what happened with those giant booster rockets once a shuttle is launched? ... seriously? Well, today's your lucky day, then!
Read More »Towers in the Mist
Remembering the Challenger disaster, 25 years later.
Read More »There and Back Again
In the business of getting to space, an access of sublime ephemerality. Video after the jump.
Read More »Total Eclipse of the Shuttle
The Earth's shadow cast against the Moon evokes the space shuttle Discovery's dwindling, penumbral career.
Read More »Are you spacecrafty?
The Space Shuttle Program, which employs five thousand people and comprises more than a quarter of NASA infrastructure, is set to end in early 2011. How to commemorate the program that has defined manned spaceflight for more than thirty years? How about with an astronaut-helmet tea cozy!
Read More »Space, gentrified
It's getting pretty plush up there. Yesterday, NASA released this image of Expedition 25 commander Doug Wheelock in the "cupola," a bay window installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station in February 2010.
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