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How the Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy Unfolded

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was reentering Earth's atmosphere after a two-week routine mission when it exploded, killing all seven astronauts aboard and scattering debris across ...

I helped design rocket engines for NASA’s space shuttles. Here’s why businesses need AI as trustworthy as aerospace tech

After NASA’s Space Shuttle program ended, I founded my first company: a platform for professionals and students to showcase ...
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This Historian Interviewed Nearly Every Woman Astronaut and Learned How They Redefined NASA Forever

For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test ...
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The International Space Station will fall to Earth in 2030. Can a private space station really fill its gap?

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030, its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...

The Battle Over Space Shuttle Discovery Keeps Getting Crazier

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of ...
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How hard could it be to move a space shuttle? The federal government may soon find out

Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

The International Space Station Is Turning 25. Was it Worth it?

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who ...

A NASA commander’s most important system wasn’t a computer. It was the crew.

Her determination eventually led her to join NASA and take a leading role in building the International Space Station through ...

Rocket Report: SpaceX surpasses shuttle launch total; Skyroot has big ambitions

Skyroot nearing first launch with big ambitions. Three years after India opened up its space sector to private companies, ...

Who are the workers who will fire Scotland's space industry?

There are about 8,000 people working in jobs in Scotland related to the space sector. But over the next 10 years, as Scotland ...
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Space is a warfighting domain. We need wartime urgency for procurement reform.

When America embarked on the journey to build the Arsenal of Democracy in World War II, President Roosevelt had a simple ...
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NASA, Smithsonian say Discovery shuttle must be disassembled to move

Within the next 18 months, the space shuttle Discovery may be disassembled in Washington D.C., transported more than 1,000 miles to Houston and reassembled. But not if grassroots group Keep The ...