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On this date: March 8

#OTD in 2001, Discovery launched on STS-102 to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station

On this date…March 4 launch of STS-62

#OTD in 1994, the launch of Columbia on the STS-62 microgravity research mission

On This Day… Endeavour Launches on ASTRO-2 Mission

#OTD in 1995, Endeavour launched on the ASTRO-2 astronomy mission:

On This Date…March 1

A mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope blasted off on this date in 2002.

On This Date…Feb. 28

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Endeavour reunited with Spacehab payload in museum

Two years after it paraded through the streets of Los Angeles following a cross-country ferry flight from Florida, the space shuttle Endeavour was loaded with a Spacehab logistics module ahead of the orbiter's planned transition to a vertical display on a mock launch pad in 2018.

X-37B space planes to move into shuttle hangars

Boeing engineers are outfitting two decommissioned space shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center for the U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane.

Shuttle Atlantis unwrapped ahead of public debut

Workers removed the protective wrap that has cocooned space shuttle Atlantis while its $100 million new home was built around it at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

STS-135: The final space shuttle landing

VIDEO: By the light of a waning moon, the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth on July 21, dropping out of predawn darkness to close out NASA's 135th and final shuttle voyage, a long-awaited – and long-dreaded – milestone marking the end of an era for American manned space flight. (Membership Required)