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Apollo-Soyuz Shuttle Manipulator Demo (1971-1972)
During the 1983 STS-7 mission, the crew of Shuttle Challenger used the Remote Manipulator System arm to deploy and retrieve the SPAS satellite. The arm, bent to form the numeral "7," is visible near the front of Challenger's payload bay. Im...
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IF A 747 CAN CARRY THE SPACE SHUTTLE



IF A 747 CAN CARRY THE SPACE SHUTTLE
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Baggage Fees
Having seen this image, we may want to revisit the issue of paying baggage fees and what the weight limits are.Have you visited UrlyBits today?Posted by Paul to UrlyBits, 2012. |
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Here's Video of Space Shuttle Enterprise Flying Over NYC [Video]





Today the space shuttle Enterprise took flight one last time on the back of a 747, as Discovery did a few weeks ago. More »



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OMG! Adorbz of the Day



This little aspiring astronaut made for the cutest pic taken Tuesday during the Discovery space shuttle’s final flight — and despite the end of the shuttle program, he still could have a future in space.
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What It Looks Like Inside the Space Shuttle Discovery [Space]





Since you'll probably never be an astronaut and since the Space Shuttle program is ending, you're probably never going to see the innards of the massive machine in real life. It's okay though, this amazing...
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NASA Captures Shuttle's Capitol Hill Flyby With—What Else—Instagram [Image Cache]





On its final flight, the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft that bore Space Shuttle Discovery took the liberty of buzzing Capitol Hill and NASA was there to preserve the moment—then apply a filter and post...
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End Of An Era of the Day



The space shuttle Discovery flew its final mission today, piggybacking on a Boeing 747 from Kennedy Space Center to D.C., where the shuttle will take up permanent residence as part of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museu...
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The Best Shot of the Space Shuttle's Amazing Goodbye Flight You'll See Today [Image Cache]





The Space Shuttle Discovery just made its last flight ever atop a 747, where it'll be laid to rest at the Smithsonian for the public to appreciate. We won't see something like this again for a long, long t...
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Goodbye, Discovery: Legendary Space Shuttle Takes Its Final Flight [Video]





The Space Shuttle Discovery hitched a ride today on NASA's 747 to National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. It's yet another period at the end of the melancholy final paragraph of the Space Shuttl...
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Happy Friday: Space Shuttle Contractor Fires Hundreds of Employees

Less than a week before space shuttles start rolling out for public display, NASA’s prime space shuttle contractor handed out pink slips to more than 9 percent of its work force.
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The Space Shuttle Will Amaze and Terrify Washington DC with Low Flyover [Space Shuttle]





Our capital is a little uptight—particularly after 9/11, it's easy to send the calm city of lobbyists and think tank dweebs into a frenzy. Idea: let's blast a Space Shuttle strapped to a 747 over eve...
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Giant Spider Terrorizes Space Shuttle and Anchorwoman [Video]





J ust a little fun around the News 12 set, eh guys? A little spidey crawled across the lens while we were filming the Space Shuttle! Heh. Cute little spider dude. Aw, it looks like—AH JESUS HERE IT C...
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The Space Shuttle Program Would Have Been 40 Today, Were It Still Around [Techniversary]





NASA had been kicking around the idea of a reusable orbiter spacecraft before it even completed the Apollo project. But it took until January 5, 1972—forty years ago today—for President Richard...
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You Must Get The Free NASA Ascent Shuttle App for iPad [Video]





I'm surprised that, after three decades of amazing launches, hundreds of outstanding missions, great science and some very sad moments, there's no more stuff celebrating the space shuttle. Thankfully, NAS...
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This Is Probably the Best Way to Watch a Space Shuttle Launch [Image Cache]






I always thought that flying around the space shuttle was the most amazing way to watch the launch. After seeing this image of skydivers falling as the shuttle fired through the clouds, I've serious doubt...
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This Is Probably the Weirdest, Goofiest Video NASA Ever Made [Video]






This video of life in the space shuttle was recorded in the 1980s. I don't know what kind of dehydrated space mushrooms these space goofballs ate or what kind of astroturf they smoked, but I love it. [NP...
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The Only Way the Space Program Will Continue

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The Size of the Shuttle Compared to Our Current Space Ride [Spacecrafts]






On the left: the most complex and amazing spacecraft ever built by mankind. It took our astronauts to space for 30 years. On the right: a tin can. It'll take our astronatus to space for... whatever. I'm d...
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Destroyed Chunk of Columbia Shuttle Discovered Under Dried Lake [Image Cache]






Eight years after the fiery horror of the Columbia disaster, a lost piece of the atmospheric sorrow has been discovered beneath a drought-shriveled Texan lake, CNN reports. The dilapidated, muddy orb rema...
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Goodbye, Space Shuttle: Now the Space Race Can Really Begin

NASA’s 135th space shuttle flight ended this morning when Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking the close of a 30-year run for NASA’s ambitious, controversial and troubled orbital vehicle.
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Welcome Home, Atlantis [Space]


5 million miles later, and Atlantis has arrived home with a thud, and likely a few tears in Nasa employees' eyes. More »






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Was the Space Shuttle Just a Science-less Cold War Weapon? [Video]






Deploying and maintaining the Hubble has been one of the biggest boons to man's understanding of the remote cosmos. But vivid examples like that aside, how much did the shuttle help science? Not at all, ...
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The Last Space Shuttle Launches Safely Into Orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL — The last mission in NASA’s decades-long space shuttle program is now underway.
Atlantis rocketed into orbit today at 11:29 a.m. EDT and is flying at 17,500 mph around the Earth. The mission, STS-135, will catch up with the Interna...
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Watch Now: NASA’s Final Space Shuttle Mission

CAPE CANAVERAL — Space shuttle Atlantis is poised to launch this morning and close NASA’s 30-year-long program. But you don’t need to combat 750,000 spectators, horrendous traffic or the bare elements to watch the liftoff and a 12-day space missi...
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Russian Cosmonaut: Our Shuttle Was Safer (And Could Drop Nukes from Orbit!) [Space]






Russia's Buran program was very short lived. Like, only one flight short lived. But according to cosmonaut (and ISS alum) Oleg Kotov, the craft had some serious potential—outclassing its American ri...
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The Space Shuttle Program’s Oddest Passengers










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Storms Threaten Friday Space Shuttle Launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — A wave of tropical storms heading toward Kennedy Space Center threatens to delay the last launch of NASA’s space shuttle program Friday morning.
“It’s not looking favorable right now for launch,” s...
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NASA’s Stillsuit: Atlantis Crew to Test Pee-Recycling Bag










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Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones

NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude.
The iOS-based software, called SpaceLab, will come pre-loaded on two iPhone ...
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Two Lucky iPhones Will Be Guests On The Last Space Shuttle Mission [Apple]






Some companies have all the luck. While Google's green Android robot sits on the sidelines, Apple gets to send two of its iPhone 4 handsets into space with the Space Shuttle Atlantis. More »...
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Why This Is the Last Photo Ever Taken by This Camera [Space]






Paolo Nespoti, the Italian astronaut who took this photo, left Earth with three, professional-grade Nikon DSLRs worth over $20,000. He returned with none of them. The images of Endeavor docked to the ISS ...
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The First and Last Time You Will See the Space Shuttle Docked to the Space Station [Video]






These images are extraordinary. Not only because they're beautiful, but because they document a future that is now gone forever. This is the first and only time you will ever see the space shuttle docked ...
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The Last Landing of the Space Shuttle Endeavour [Video]






After a total journey of 122 million miles and 25 perfect missions, Endeavour has landed in the dark. She was the youngest in the space shuttle fleet. This is how she arrived home: More »
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Final Trip: Shuttle Endeavour Docked at Space Station

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured stunning photos of the Space Shuttle Endeavour over a light-streaked planet, just before the shuttle returns to Earth for the last time.
Endeavour took off on its final mission on May 16, carryin...
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This is the new "Space Shuttle" [Spacelopnik]






With the final launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and only one more launch before the program is retired, NASA officially announced the shuttle's replacement today: the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV...
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This is the new "Space Shuttle" [Spacelopnik]






With the final launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and only one more launch before the program is retired, NASA officially announced the shuttle's replacement today: the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV...
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Baby Squid, Bugs and Microbes Launched Into Space

By Mark Brown, Wired UK
On 16 May, 2011, a crowd of thousands flocked to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to witness the historic final launch of the Endeavour space shuttle.



Following days of delays and numerous t...
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Next-to-Last Shuttle Mission Rockets Into Orbit

NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour punched through a veil of clouds this morning, making its 25th and final ascent into space after technicians quickly repaired damage to its heat shield.
“This is a both a sad and proud moment for your launch tea...
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Ways to Watch The Next-to-Last Shuttle Launch

The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral for the last time on Monday, May 16 at 8:56 a.m. EDT. But if you can’t make it to Florida, you can watch from where you sit.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Scrubbed for At Least 48 Hours [Blip]


Apparently, there's a heater problem in pertaining to the Endeavour's Auxiliary Power Unit. To quote Sam, "Duchess Middleton will NOT be upstaged." [Twitter] More »






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The Anticlimactic End to NASA's Space Shuttle Program [Sad]






That badass picture isn't a still from the new Transformers movie. It's an actual electrical storm behind the actual space shuttle Endeavor, set to launch on its final voyage today. This is the penultimat...
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What Will Happen to All The Shuttle Stuff?

As the space shuttles get ready for their second lives as museum pieces, NASA officials are already sorting through their storage closets, trying to figure out what to do with all the memorabilia that isn’t useful anymore.
“It’s like if...
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Houston deserved a damn space shuttle [Rants]






Washington was not the first word spoken on the moon. When a situation turns bad no one says "Los Angeles, we have a problem" because no wants help from Charlie Sheen. Houston is Space City, the birthplac...
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NASA Announces Space Shuttles’ Final Homes

New York, L.A., Orlando and D.C. will be the new homes of the retired space shuttles, announced NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden in a ceremony today at Kennedy Space Center. The ceremony commemorated the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight; aft...
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Book Excerpt: Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual

The following is an excerpt from the new book NASA Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual.
Chapter 3: Anatomy of the Space Shuttle

Author David Baker worked with NASA on the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs between 1965 and 1984. He has w...
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NASA Tackles New Challenge with Green Flight Initiative
The Space Shuttle hasn’t even gotten its last flight off the ground and already NASA has embarked on a new mission. This time, the goal is a little closer to Earth. The agency is dedicating $16.5 million to a set of four projects to develop more fue...
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Now This Is How You Retrieve Two Massive Solid Rocket Boosters from the Ocean! [Video]






I still can't believe this is the first up-close, high-definition video of NASA retrieving the space shuttle's two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) form the Atlantic Ocean, and yet it is! The SRBs, in a word,...
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NASA Worker Falls Off Space Shuttle and Dies [Nasa]






Bad news keep piling on: A United Space Alliance employee died today around 7:40am ET, at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39-A, in Florida. More »






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