How NASA’s hot rod Pontiac helped design the space shuttle
Facing unprecedented heat during returns through the atmosphere, simplicity was the order of the day for the shuttle, as ...
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Next-Generation Space Shuttle Reaches Major Milestone
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft has taken a significant step toward operational missions. The uncrewed spaceplane ...
Secretive X-37B space plane shares first images from orbit; see photos
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Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke and space shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott will have profiles of their faces land on the moon.
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International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15
The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe It has been 15 years since the ultimate selfie booth, the Cupola, was attached to the International Space Station (ISS).… The Cupola, ...
What we know: Secretive Space Force X-37B space plane sends back photo of Earth
According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation similar to the Space Shuttle, however it is smaller, ...
Shuttle flight seemed doomed from the start
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Director who led Marshall Space Flight Center during Challenger disaster dead at 102
President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...
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NASA’s Hot Rod Pontiac Helped Design the Space Shuttle
but rather a very different— and very real—Pontiac-based program that relied on big cubic inches to help usher America’s nascent shuttle design into the later space age. The year was 1963 ...