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 ...
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California landing ends shuttle's Hubble trip

Space shuttle Atlantis landed Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base after rainy weather in Florida precluded a landing at Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle touched down at 8:39 a.m. PT at Edwards, about ...

When King Charles met NASA's space shuttle Enterprise as the Prince of Wales

In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, ...
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Edwards Air Force Role in the Space Program

In a few moments, we'll hear about the l ast Space Shuttle landing , which took place this morning, and the future of NASA. Out of 133 shuttle landings, 54 happened at Edwards Air Force Base in the ...

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Leland Melvin said that flying a space shuttle was significantly less nerve-wracking than being racially profiled by the ...