Eileen Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle. A new documentary shows how she got there

‘Spacewoman’ chronicles how Collins persevered against odds to become the first female space shuttle pilot and commander. The ...
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OTD In Space - April 14: 1st Space Shuttle Mission Lands

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...
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NASA Tests Space Shuttle Engine That Will Power Moon Mission Five Years in the Future

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...
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Assembling and supplying the ISS the Space Shuttle fulfills its mission David J. Shayler

Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Dedication; Prologue; 1: An Alternative Plan; Shuffling the Shuttle to Assemble the Station; NASA's Tier-2: An Alternative Assembly Plan; The Interim Control ...
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NASA's first Space Shuttle astronaut selection redefining the right stuff David J. Shayler, Colin Burgess

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...