The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo ...

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The Smithsonian recently confirmed that NASA and the museum have been directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

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A group of gold commemorative coins that traveled into orbit aboard an infamous NASA space shuttle recently fetched a series of historically high bids at auction. Ever since a collection of Sacagawea ...