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You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program.
The mint set noon EDT on Thursday (May 15) as its T-0 for the launch of Florida's dollar celebrating the retired spacecraft.
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NASA’s Anne McClain emerged from the International Space Station alongside Nichole Ayers. Both military officers and pilots, they launched to the orbiting lab in March to replace NASA’s two ...
NASA mission control asked Anne McClain aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to focus her helmet camera on the glove prior to her exiting the orbital platform. McClain and fellow astronaut ...
McClain and Ayers are both part of a SpaceX mission known as Crew-10 that reached the space station in March and paved the way for the Starliner astronauts to return home. NASA is providing a ...
NASA has excised former Space Shuttle manager Wayne Hale's blog from its website in a reminder that nothing is forever. Hale began his blog in 2008, as the Space Shuttle program was winding down. The ...
The RS-25s are refurbished engines left over from the Space Shuttle program. During that era, technicians swapped out main engines several times when the shuttle was on the launch pad. NASA ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — On Wednesday morning, the majority members of the Senate Commerce Committee voted in favor of having President Donald Trump’s nominee Jared Isaacman as NASA’s new ...
A satellite that looks like a giant parasol was launched into orbit today, and will open itself up automatically in space. The ‘space brolly’ was made by the European Space Agency, and blasted ...
On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was the second time the Spacelab went to space and the first time it flew ...
What we call NASA’s act one, The Apollo era, was a great example of what the strengths of that system can be. Fast forwarding to what we call act two, which was the space shuttle and ...