• Rendezvous: A Space Shuttle Simulation, is a space simulator published 1982 by Edu-Ware, and developed by Titan Computer Products and NASA scientist Wesley...
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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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  • is a sourced index of commercial freeware space flight simulation games. The list is categorized into four sections: space flight simulators, space flight...
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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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    On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts...
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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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  • allows users to explore the Solar System in a number of spacecraft, both realistic, such as the Space Shuttle Atlantis; and fictional, such as the "Delta-Glider...
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    Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. It currently supports the International Space Station and oversees the development...
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    The Space Shuttle thermal protection system (TPS) is the barrier that protected the Space Shuttle Orbiter during the searing 1,650 °C (3,000 °F) heat...
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  • mounted to rescue the crew of a Space Shuttle if their vehicle was damaged and deemed unable to make a successful reentry. Such a mission would have been flown...
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    assembly flight ULF7) was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed...
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    Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferry flights generally originated at Edwards Air Force Base in California or on one occasion White Sands Space Harbor in New...
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    positions in a space mission. The mission specific training typically requires 18 months to complete for Space Shuttle and International Space Station crews...
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    and a range of bus tours of the spaceport. The "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit contains the Atlantis orbiter and the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulated...
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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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    John Young (astronaut) (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    Global Positioning System (GPS) into the Space Shuttle's navigation system, and improving landing simulations.: 299–307  In February 1996, he was assigned...
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    The Space Shuttle general purpose computers were a critical subsystem, and the vehicle cannot fly without them. EECOM's revamped Space Shuttle responsibilities...
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  • Edu-Ware (category Articles with a promotional tone from June 2020)
    considered a true hit. In 1982, Edu-Ware introduced a third brand, Interactive Simulations, when it released Rendezvous: A Space Shuttle Simulation, developed...
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    NASA's space shuttle: Looking back at Atlantis' final mission 10 years later". Space.com. Retrieved 2022-08-24. Clara Moskowitz (2012-05-22). "SpaceX Launches...
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    have the Space Shuttle dock with a Salyut space station. In the early 1980s, NASA planned to launch a modular space station called Freedom as a counterpart...
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    manager of the Space Shuttle program before leaving NASA in 1985 and later becoming a vice president of the United Space Alliance. Lunney was a key figure...
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    operational altitude of the Space Shuttle was much lower, at 386 miles (621 km) for the STS-31 flight in 1990. The September 2021 SpaceX flight of Inspiration4...
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    (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The launch of the Space Shuttle...
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    Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (category Johnson Space Center)
    the moment a Space Shuttle cleared its launch tower in Florida until it landed on Earth, it was in the hands of Mission Control. When a shuttle mission was...
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    quality by a servicing mission in 1993. Hubble is the only telescope designed to be maintained in space by astronauts. Five Space Shuttle missions have...
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    Buzz Aldrin (redirect from Dr. Rendezvous)
    with a doctoral degree. His doctoral thesis, Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous, earned him the nickname "Dr. Rendezvous" from...
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    Karol J. Bobko (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    was completed in July 1975. Subsequently, he was a member of the support crew for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests conducted at Edwards Air...
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    in NASA specializing in orbital rendezvous. Oberg is an author of ten books and more than a thousand articles on space flight. He gave many explanations...
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    "SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon with astronauts docks at space station in historic rendezvous". Space.com. Retrieved 19 April 2024. "We were surprised a little...
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    books in space exploration. Chichester, England: Springer. ISBN 9780387746388. OCLC 495296214. Heppenheimer, T.A. (1999). The Space Shuttle Decision:...
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