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Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking How would you move Space Shuttle ...

Mascara and strings of tampons: How Nasa's baffled engineers tried to prepare for the first female astronauts in space

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

Meet the NASA photographer who captured Endeavour's flight over Houston 13 years ago

A former NASA photographer shares how she captured Houston's most iconic view of Endeavour's farewell flight, 13 years after it soared above the city.
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A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle-shaped vehicle on the program's ...