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    9201639°N 118.1222306°W / 33.9201639; -118.1222306 Space Shuttle Inspiration is a full-scale Space Shuttle orbiter mockup built in 1972 by North American...
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    The Space Shuttle Pathfinder (unofficial Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-098) is a Space Shuttle test simulator made of steel and wood. Constructed by...
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    Space Shuttle Independence, formerly known as Explorer, is a full-scale, high-fidelity replica of the Space Shuttle. It was built by Guard-Lee in Apopka...
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    The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...
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  • Inspiration, a women's golf tournament INSPIRE-HEP, a database of particle physics literature Space Shuttle Inspiration, a full-scale Space Shuttle mockup...
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    The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and...
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    retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet took place from March to July 2011. Discovery was the first of the three active Space Shuttles to be retired, completing...
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  • – was placed on temporary display at the center. Dubbed the "Space Shuttle Inspiration", it was disassembled and stored in early 2014. In front of the...
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    (380 mi). STS-31, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope at 621 km (386 mi) was the highest of the Space Shuttle program and fourth highest ever behind...
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  • Space Shuttle missions designated STS-3xx (officially called Launch On Need (LON) missions) were rescue missions which would have been mounted to rescue...
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    United States Space Shuttle program and benefited from extensive espionage undertaken by the KGB of the unclassified US Space Shuttle program, resulting...
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  • developed by Glen Zipper and Steven Leckart for Netflix. It focuses on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, including the build-up to the flight, interviews...
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    United States Astronaut Hall of Fame (category Space Shuttle tourist attractions)
    Inspiration was acquired by LVX System and was placed in storage at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center; in 2016, the shuttle was...
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    the Soyuz spacecraft. The shuttle program restored spaceflight to the U.S. following the Skylab program, but the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986...
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  • 2061: Odyssey Three (category Space Odyssey)
    was delayed further in wake of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Deciding not to wait, Clarke took inspiration for his sequel from the return of Halley's...
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  • approach include Space Shuttle: A Journey into Space (1982), Rendezvous: A Space Shuttle Simulation (1982), The Halley Project (1985), Shuttle (1992) and Microsoft...
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    STS-1 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April...
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    Sultan bin Salman Al Saud (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    the American STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist. He is the first member of a royal family to fly in space, the first Arab and the...
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    Magellan (spacecraft) (category Spacecraft launched by the Space Shuttle)
    probe was the first interplanetary mission to be launched from the Space Shuttle, the first one to use the Inertial Upper Stage booster, and the first...
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    International Space Station before retiring the Space Shuttle.[citation needed] Initially, senior figures at NASA strongly opposed space tourism on principle;...
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    spaceflight history from the early beginnings of the Space Race to the end of the Space Shuttle era. In the museum's Astro-theater, multimedia presentations...
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  • Frederick Sturckow who trains incoming astronauts and is a veteran of the Space Shuttle program. He makes a positive impression on Sturckow and is accepted...
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  • album Signals (1982). Its lyrics are about the first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia the previous year. The song incorporates audio from voice communications...
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  • Dead Space is a 2008 survival horror game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360...
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    Chris Hadfield (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Prior to...
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  • The Dream Is Alive (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    American IMAX documentary film, released on June 1, 1985, about NASA's Space Shuttle program. The film was narrated by Walter Cronkite, and directed by Graeme...
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  • of the shuttle was built, which could be split in half to accommodate filming. Production designer Kevin Jenkins specifically took inspiration from 2001:...
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    Challenger flag (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    flag eventually be flown aboard a space shuttle and returned to the scout troop, to serve as a source of inspiration. Through calling in multiple favors...
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  • David G. Stork. In March 2015, a model of the Aries 1B Trans-Lunar Space Shuttle used in the film was sold at auction for $344,000 in the United States...
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  • neither the Skylab nor ISS space stations) through the end of the 20th century: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. The last surviving member...
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