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The Space Shuttle was and forever will be a very special vehicle in the history of space exploration. Over the course of three decades starting in 1981, the small fleet of spaceplanes took to the sky ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

A space shuttle mock-up sits in a maintanance yard in The City of Downey, awaiting its moment. The Columbia Memorial Space Center may soon house the first Space Shuttle ever built, but for now, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China’s space administration has reportedly greenlit a new space shuttle project, more than a decade after NASA stopped flying its ...