The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and enabling decades of missions. With massive solid rocket boosters, advanced ...

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Wilmore and Williams, along with American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, are scheduled to ...

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The ISS was officially approved by former US President Ronald Reagan in 1984, and its development involved contributions from multiple nations.

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Tense, public squabbles between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA have unsettled the space industry. But the day-to-day relationship between the space agency and SpaceX remains relatively unscathed ...

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Congrats on retirement." Williams would go on to work ... covered the build-up to the war in Iraq as well as the Columbia space shuttle tragedy. His beat also included Capitol Hill and the White ...

The Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A at 7:03 ... been NASA's main way to get to the ISS with the retirement of the shuttle. Russia still sends people to the Space Station ...