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What really happens when a space shuttle returns with no astronauts

When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...

Inside NASA's space shuttle Challenger disaster that could have been stopped 40 years ago

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...
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This Space Shuttle concept was too cool to be realized

This article was originally featured on The Drive. When the spaceplane’s landing gear struck the runway on July 21, 2011, it marked the end of the line for the Space Shuttle. An incredible ...
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 40th Anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster at Kennedy Space Center

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle's seven astronauts were killed by an explosion.
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Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a novel ...