The Space Shuttle
News items reporting on the space shuttle
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Jul 2, 2010
Jun 22, 2010
"While Glenn supports President Barack Obama's plan to extend operations of the International Space Station and to forego returning to the Moon for the time being, he thinks retiring the space shuttles at this point is a mistake."
Jun 13, 2010
May 31, 2010
"NASA has released, for the first time, video of the final inspection of a space shuttle before launch. The Final Inspection Team, also known as the 'Ice Team,' performs a walkdown of Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A during space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 launch countdown on May 14, 2010."
May 31, 2010
"[T]he final set of space shuttle solid rocket booster segments arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, May 27, 2010."
May 27, 2010
"The Wednesday landing of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis may have capped a successful mission that is slated to be the spaceship's last, but the orbiter's immediate future is not yet set in stone."
May 26, 2010
"It was a beautiful, bittersweet homecoming. Right on time, at 8.48 a.m. Wednesday, space shuttle Atlantis cut through a clear spring sky, banked hard to the right, and made a picture-perfect landing on runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center...."
May 25, 2010
"Atlantis shuttle astronauts are preparing their spacecraft for its planned Wednesday landing."
May 25, 2010
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May 24, 2010
"Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station for what's expected to be the final time on Sunday as its six-man crew began the trip home for their orbiter's final mission."
