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What really happens when a space shuttle returns with no astronauts

When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...
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40 Years Later: How The Tragedy of Challenger/STS-51-L Changed NASA Forever

For the millions of people across the country and around the world that watched the tragic loss of Challenger live, the ...

40 years after the space shuttle Challenger disaster, spaceflight remains far from routine

Seven astronauts lost their lives during the Challenger space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. Four decades later, human ...
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NASA freezes plan to move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian home

NASA has put the brakes on a politically charged plan to uproot Space Shuttle Discovery from its longtime home at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. The agency’s new leadership ...