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Space Shuttle News

Janice Voss, Shuttle Astronaut and Scientist, Dies at 55

10 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
Dr. Voss explored the behavior of fire in weightlessness, how plants adapt to extraterrestrial flight and an array of other phenomena while logging nearly 19 million miles circling Earth. Read more...

Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger

4 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion, warning that if it was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle’s rocket boosters could fail. Read more...

Astronauts Head To Space Station in Russian Craft

14 Nov 2011 at 5:00am
A Russian spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians blasted off successfully Monday from the steppes of Kazakhstan on a mission to the International Space Station. Read more...

Plans to Build Museum Opposite Intrepid, to House Enterprise

29 Sep 2011 at 4:00am
Officials at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum want to build a new home for the Enterprise. Read more...

NASA’s Falling UARS Will Miss the U.S.

24 Sep 2011 at 4:00am
Hours after the defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite was supposed to have made a fiery plunge back to Earth, NASA said the satellite appears to be slowing its descent. Read more...

Texas: More Debris From the Columbia Is Found

3 Aug 2011 at 4:00am
A piece of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart and burned up on re-entry more than eight years ago, has been found in a drought-stricken East Texas lake, NASA officials said Tuesday. Read more...

Sunday Dialogue: America’s Future in Space

31 Jul 2011 at 4:00am
Readers respond to a letter urging a more ambitious space program focusing on Mars. Read more...

Invitation to a Dialogue: Our Ambitions in Space

27 Jul 2011 at 4:00am
Readers are invited to continue the conversation begun in an editorial about setting new goals after the space shuttle program. Read more...

Shuttle Ends Its Final Voyage and an Era in Space

22 Jul 2011 at 4:00am
The last space shuttle flight rolled to a stop just before 6 a.m. on Thursday, closing an era of the nation’s space program. Read more...

After the Space Shuttle

22 Jul 2011 at 4:00am
NASA may have closed one era in America’s human space flight program, but the arguments for bold and inspiring missions still hold. Read more...


Space Shuttle Resources

Return To Flight
NASA's official site about the Shuttle's return to flight. Contains recent news updates and many videos of the return to flight preparations.

Return To Flight Task Group
On June 13, 2003 the NASA Administrator appointed two veteran astronauts to lead an external task group in an independent assessment of the agency's Return to Flight efforts and to help the nation return the Space Shuttle safely to flight. This site documents their work.

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