• During NASA's Space Shuttle program, several missions were canceled. Many were canceled as a result of the Challenger and the Columbia disasters or due...
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    other planned missions were canceled due to the late development of the shuttle, and the Challenger and Columbia disasters. Four missions were cut short...
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    of operation, Columbia was flown on 28 missions in the Space Shuttle program, spending over 300 days in space and completing over 4,000 orbits around...
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  • Several planned missions of the Apollo crewed Moon landing program of the 1960s and 1970s were canceled, for reasons which included changes in technical...
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    operation, Challenger was flown on ten missions in the Space Shuttle program, spending over 62 days in space and completing almost 1,000 orbits around...
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    missions ready in case irreparable damage was found. Except for one mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, subsequent Space Shuttle missions were...
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    STS-61-M (category Cancelled Space Shuttle missions)
    have been TDRS-D of the U.S. tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) satellites. Spaceflight portal Canceled Space Shuttle missions STS-144 STS-61-H...
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    On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated...
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    List of human spaceflights List of Space Shuttle crews List of Space Shuttle missions Timeline of Space Shuttle missions  This article incorporates public...
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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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    STS-61-F (category Cancelled Space Shuttle missions)
    STS-61-F was a NASA Space Shuttle mission planned to launch on 15 May 1986 using Challenger. It was canceled after Challenger was destroyed earlier that...
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    for development. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips. The Space Shuttle, composed of an orbiter launched...
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    Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space...
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    STS-61-G (category Cancelled Space Shuttle missions)
    booster instead of the Centaur-G (which was canceled in 1986). Spaceflight portal Canceled Space Shuttle missions STS-30 STS-34 "John M. Fabian, Interviewed...
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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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    STS-61-E (category Cancelled Space Shuttle missions)
    respectively. Spaceflight portal Canceled Space Shuttle missions STS-35 Evans, Ben (2005). Space Shuttle Columbia: Her Missions and Crews. Springer Science...
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    that the project might be canceled. This led to an effort to interest the US Air Force in using the shuttle for their missions as well. The Air Force was...
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    STS-61-H (category Cancelled Space Shuttle missions)
    STS-61-H was a NASA Space Shuttle mission planned to launch on 24 June 1986 using Columbia. However, it was canceled after the Challenger disaster. Before...
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  • situation. Space Shuttle landings were intended to regularly take place at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for Department of Defense missions launched...
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    shuttle boosters and improvements to the central tank, but also looked to expand NASA's ability to launch deep space missions and build modular space...
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  • costs are taken into account, the final cost of the Space Shuttle program, averaged over all missions and adjusted for inflation (2008), was estimated to...
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    1968–1972 Apollo Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. It currently supports the International Space Station and oversees the...
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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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    The Shuttle-Mir missions were all Space Shuttle missions, and are also counted under the Space Shuttle program missions in the table. In May 2009, the Obama...
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    and Johnson Space Center who were present. The astronauts considered the Shuttle-Centaur missions to be riskiest Space Shuttle missions yet, referring...
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    1993, the first mission started in 1994 and the project continued until its scheduled completion in 1998. Eleven Space Shuttle missions, a joint Soyuz...
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    spaceflight missions since the late 1960s, the pad is currently configured for use by the agency's Space Launch System rocket, a Shuttle-derived launch...
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    their students. NASA cancelled the program in 1990, following the death of its first participant, Christa McAuliffe, in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster...
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    reentries, which themselves were very similar to the ones on the US Space Shuttle. However, the carbon-carbon Buran heat tiles have an antioxidant molybdenum...
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    complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. They launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC)...
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