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Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank relic heads for California
The last remaining external fuel tank built for the space shuttle program but never flew will depart its factory in New Orleans on Tuesday for a long sea voyage to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
VideoOTD…March 9 and STS-133 landing
Today in 2011, shuttle Discovery made a graceful landing at Kennedy Space Center, returning from her final voyage after a remarkable three-decade life of service.
STS 41-B Post-Flight Presentation
The crew of Space Shuttle mission STS 41-B provide an overview of their mission. Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center on February 3, 1984, and although the flight was marred by the failure of two commercial satellite deployments, astronaut Bruce McCandless made history by making the first untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit jet pack.
STS-104 Post-Flight Presentation
The five STS-104 Atlantis astronauts narrate the highlights of their mission in this post-flight film. The shuttle mission in July 2001 delivered the $164 million Joint Airlock to the International Space Station. The module, named Quest, gave the outpost a new doorway for American and Russian spacewalks.
‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttle
It was 1986 and the U.S. Air Force was on the cusp of something unprecedented in human spaceflight -- launching a space shuttle crew from California and paving the way for people to fly true polar missions.
VideoFamilies, NASA honor fallen astronauts
On the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, crew families, friends and space workers gathered Thursday to remember the 17 men and women who lost their lives on the high frontier, 14 in two space shuttle disasters and three in an Apollo-era launch pad fire 49 years ago Wednesday.
VideoOTD…Jan. 28 and STS-51L
Today in 1986...Space shuttle Challenger and her seven astronaut crew were lost during launch.
Reporters remember Challenger coverage
Veteran CBS News correspondent Bruce Hall was not on the air when the shuttle Challenger blasted off 30 years ago Thursday. It was, after all, the 25th shuttle flight, the first of 16 planned for 1986, and news agencies were backing off expensive, remote coverage of what increasingly appeared to be a routine event.
Challenger remembered
Thirty years after the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated in the clear, cold sky high above Cape Canaveral, the commander's widow no longer feels anger at NASA and the management missteps and schedule pressure that kept the orbiters flying despite a fatal flaw in their solid-fuel boosters.
The Space Shuttle Challenger Accident Investigation
A NASA video on the investigation into the Challenger accident of January 28, 1986. The video was created by the STS 51-L Data and Design Analysis Task Force which contributed to the Presidential Commission that investigated the tragedy. (Membership required)