Last Nasa Shuttle

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  Space Travel Messes With the Human Brain, Reveals New NASA-Funded Study

  Space can be an unfriendly place for the human body, with microgravity conditions and other factors tampering with our physiology, from head to toe — head, of course, being a primary concern. A new NASA-funded study provides a deeper understanding of the issue. Researchers said on Thursday that astronauts who traveled on the International Space S...

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  A Tesla Model X Transported SpaceX Astronauts To The Shuttle On Launch Day

  The Tesla Model X is the flagship SUV from Elon Musk's electric car company, and it recently became the transport van for the SpaceX astronauts that recently made their way up to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster rocket. It was for the first time that NASA was sending its astronauts - Robert Behnken and Douglas Hu...

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  Musk's SpaceX Set for Debut Astronaut Mission, Renewing NASA's Crewed Launch Program

  California-based SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken and its Falcon 9 rocket is due to lift off at 4:33 pm EDT on Wednesday (02:03 am IST on Thursday) from the same launch pad used by NASA's last space shuttle mission in 2011.

• Final 10-mile trek for space shuttle Atlantis

  Space shuttle Atlantis' final journey to retirement is down broad industrial avenues, most of them off-limits to the public. So Friday's trek won't replicate the narrow, stop-and-go turns Endeavour encountered last month while navigating downtown Los Angeles.

• Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete

  At daybreak on Tuesday, the oldest of NASA's retired shuttle fleet will leave its home at Kennedy Space Center for the final time, riding on top of a modified jumbo jet. Its destination: the Smithsonian Institution's hangar outside Washington, D.C. The plane and jet will make a farewell flight over Cape Canaveral before heading north. The pair al...

• 'Godspeed', say astronauts as Atlantis begins last trip home

  A space shuttle left the International Space Station for the very last time on Tuesday, heading home to end the 30-year run of a vessel that kept astronauts flying to and from orbit longer than any other US rocketship. Atlantis slipped away as the two spacecraft soared nearly 250 miles above the Pacific.

• Atlantis lifts off for last space shuttle mission

  For the last time, the engines of a space shuttle roared, the ground rumbled, and the shuttle Atlantis rose off the launching pad and quickly disappeared into the gray, overcast sky. By dawn on Friday, cars and Winnebagos lined the sides of roadways with the prime views as hundreds of thousands of people came to watch the 135th and last flight in t...

• NASA delays space shuttle Endeavour's last launch

  NASA has called off Friday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour because of a heater failure.Commander Mark Kelly and his crew were on their way to the launch pad, when NASA halted the countdown. The astronauts' van did a U-turn, and returned the astronauts to crew quarters.NASA spokesman George Dillard says the next try will be Sunday at the earlies...

• Discovery leaves Earth one last time

  With seconds to spare after a last-minute glitch, the repaired shuttle Discovery, grounded since November because of vexing fuel tank cracks, rocketed into orbit Thursday on its 39th and final flight, setting off for the International Space Station to deliver supplies, equipment and a final American storage module.The countdown proceeded smoothly i...

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  Space shuttle Discovery fuels for pre-dawn launch

  NASA fueled Discovery late on Sunday for a pre-dawn launch to the International Space Station, one of the last few shuttle flights.

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  Space shuttle Endeavour blasts off

  Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit Monday on what is expected to be the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program.