From 1981 to 2011, the space shuttle flew 135 missions and carried 355 people into space. It launched satellites. It deployed (then later fixed) the Hubble Telescope. It was instrumental in building ...

This collection consists of 6.85 cubic feet of Space Shuttle training manuals, handbooks and workbooks published by NASA for the training of the astronaut candidates for the Space Shuttle Program, ...

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In May 2010, the National Research Council (NRC) was asked by NASA to address several questions related to the Astronaut Corps. The NRC’s Committee on Human Spaceflight Crew Operations was tasked to ...

The Space Shuttle program operated for 30 years as reusable vehicles transporting astronauts and supplies, with six shuttles built, two of which were tragically lost before the fleet retired in 2011.

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Reporters are invited to cover space shuttle Atlantis’ move to the launch pad on Oct. 13 and the STS-129 mission crew’s dress rehearsal activities Oct. 19 to Oct. 21 at NASA’s ...