Criticism of the Space Shuttle program stemmed from claims that NASA's Space Shuttle program failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as...

The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which...

2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second...

January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated...

1. The final shuttle mission was completed with the landing of Atlantis on July 21, 2011, closing the 30-year Space Shuttle program. The Shuttle was...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS)...

The Shuttle–Mir program was a collaborative 11-mission space program between Russia and the United States that involved American Space Shuttles visiting...

Criticism of the Space Shuttle program Fallen Astronaut International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety Lost Cosmonauts Skylab 4 Space exposure...

control of spacecraft to and from the station, to utilisation of space and crew time. In March 2010, the International Space Station Program Managers...

Development of SLS began in 2011, as a replacement for the retired Space Shuttle as well as the cancelled Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles. As a Shuttle-derived...

with The Guardian in July 2008 Griffin stated, in criticism of the Space Shuttle program, that an opportunity to push on to Mars by extending the Apollo...

Contingency Shuttle Crew Support. The program was initiated following loss of Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. No mission of this type was launched during the Space...

The Rogers Commission Report was written by a Presidential Commission charged with investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during its 10th...

NASA administrator Criticism of the Space Shuttle program Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee Space Exploration Initiative Warren...

competition also in space, by agreeing in 1993 on the Shuttle–Mir and International Space Station programs. Although Germans, Americans and Soviets experimented...

for flights of a specific payload on a NASA Space Shuttle mission. People assigned as payload specialists included individuals selected by the research community...

The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program that is led by the United States' NASA and was formally established in 2017 via Space Policy Directive...

participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of crewless exploration missions to other planets (such as Mars) and the Moon;...

corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research. Originating from the Soviet space program founded...

Criticism of space exploration ranges from simple opposition to the cost and perceived benefit of manned space flight to philosophical or political critique...

commanded STS-1 in 1981, the Space Shuttle program's first launch, and STS-9 in 1983, both of which were on Columbia. He was one of only two astronauts, along...

The Dream is Alive is an American IMAX documentary film, released on June 1, 1985, about NASA's Space Shuttle program. The film was narrated by Walter...

NASA's Vision for Space Exploration that would replace the space agency's planned Ares I and Ares V rockets with a family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles...

Soviet cosmonauts. The European Space Agency (ESA) also took advantage of the program.[citation needed] The US Space Shuttle program included payload specialist...

to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the state of human spaceflight at NASA, and as a way to regain public enthusiasm for space exploration. The policy...

help Space Coast workers affected by the cancellation of the Space Shuttle program and Constellation program. The Obama administration's space policy...

before the end of the Apollo program, and the rest of the group members eventually flew as mission specialists during the Space Shuttle program. With his...

there, especially in the early days of the Space Shuttle program or when weather at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at Kennedy Space Center prevented ending...

idea to make the U.S. space program popular again (the launches of the Space Shuttles being relegated to the eighth page of The New York Times, for example)...

from the beginning of the Shuttle program until the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, NASA attempted to position its shuttle as the sole legal...