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Bookmark or Share- The Soviet Buran Shuttle: One Flight, Long HistoryAlthough the program had been secret, Australian fishermen caught sight of a Soviet ship pulling a small scale model form the ocean. These reports began speculation that the Soviet Union was trying to build a shuttle to match the U.S. one. Amid much international speculation and after many delays, the Soviet Union launched the Buran (Snowstorm ...
- Apollo program - National Air and Space MuseumMany are familiar with Apollo 11, the mission that landed humans on the Moon for the first time. It was part of the larger Apollo program.
- Patch, Space Shuttle Program, "We Made History"Patch, Space Shuttle Program, "We Made History". This "We Made History" commemorative patch was designed to celebreate the thousands of people who worked on the Space Shuttle Program over the course of its thirty years. Mission patches were important symbols of and souvenirs of the space program. As a result, creating a patch with the image of ...
- Space Shuttle: The End of An Era - National Air and Space MuseumThe space shuttle democratized and internationalized human spaceflight. It enabled the growth of new disciplines in microgravity science—biological and physical sciences that explored the fundamental nature of anything in an environment without the dominant influence of gravity. The last three missions flown in 2011 prompted much commentary ...
- Why Has It Been 50 Years Since Humans Went to the Moon?The Space Shuttle finally orbited in 1981, after thin NASA budgets and challenging new technologies caused years of delay. With a new, space enthusiast president in office, Ronald Reagan, NASA leadership set about pushing what they had always believed was the “next logical step” to a sustainable space infrastructure, a space station.
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