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15 Years Ago: STS-129 Delivers Cargo on the Third Utilization and Logistics Flight
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On Nov. 16, 2009, space shuttle Atlantis began its 31st trip into space, on the third Utilization and Logistics Flight…
Article2 weeks ago
40 Years Ago: STS-51A – “The Ace Repo Company”
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Successfully deployed from the space shuttle Challenger during the February 1984 STS-41B mission, the Westar 6 and Palapa B2 communications…
Article4 weeks ago
30 Years Ago: STS-66, the ATLAS-3 Mission to Study the Earth’s Atmosphere
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On Nov. 3, 1994, space shuttle Atlantis took to the skies on its 13th trip into space. During the 11-day…
Article4 weeks ago
35 Years Ago: STS-34 Sends Galileo on its Way to Jupiter
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On Oct. 18, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its fifth flight, STS-34, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC)…
Article1 month ago
Kathryn Sullivan: The First American Woman to Walk in Space
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Forty years ago, in October 1984, Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space. But being the…
Article2 months ago
40 Years Ago: STS-41G – A Flight of Many Firsts and Records
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The 13th flight of the space shuttle program and the sixth of Challenger, STS-41G holds many distinctions. As the first…
Article2 months ago
