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Space Shuttle Enterprise wing damage on barge

Enterprise: The Test Shuttle

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Without going into space, the first space shuttle prepared astronauts for future missions.

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The Astro-1 payload is seen backdropped against the blue and white Earth in this scene photographed through the space shuttle Columbia's aft flight deck windows during the STS-35 mission in December 1990. The hardware, which flew again on STS-67 in 1995, is now restored for public display.

Astro Restoration Project pieces together space shuttle astronomy payload

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The Astro Restoration Project is now well underway towards its goal of bringing the STS-35 (and STS-67) mission hardware back to its as-flown condition.

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MotoArt’s NASA MLP-2 PlaneTag is made from the genuine metal of the tail service masts from NASA's now-scrapped Mobile Launch Platform-2 in support of the space shuttle.

MotoArt makes mementos from scrapped NASA shuttle launch platform

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

When NASA announced it was going to destroy its historic Mobile Launch Platform-2, which used to support Apollo rockets and space shuttles, fans of MotoArt's PlaneTags got an idea.

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Urwerk’s UR-100V P.02 wristwatch is limited to just 20 pieces and is available exclusively to Collective Horology members. Part of the proceeds will be donated to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum for the ongoing display of the space shuttle Enterprise.

New Urwerk wristwatch inspired by NASA space shuttle Enterprise controls

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The analog dials used to fly a 40-year-old NASA space shuttle have inspired the look of a new, avant-garde timepiece.

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Space.com and The Space Store have teamed up for a new giveaway for your chance to win a scale model of the space shuttle Endeavour.

Join our Space.com Forums giveaway to win a space shuttle Endeavour model!

By Mohamed Mohammed published

You can win a scale model of NASA's space shuttle Endeavour or a sweet space t-shirt in Space.com Forum giveaway this month.

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NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches on July 8, 2011, kicking off STS-135, the final mission of the shuttle program.

The last voyage of NASA's space shuttle: Looking back at Atlantis' final mission 10 years later

By Elizabeth Howell published

The final space shuttle mission, which launched 10 years ago this week, almost didn't happen.

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NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches on July 8, 2011, kicking off STS-135, the final mission of the shuttle program.

NASA launches space shuttle on historic final mission

By Mike Wall last updated

Atlantis blasted off Friday to kick off its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station.

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A look inside the space shuttle motion base simulator after it arrived back at NASA's Johnson Space Center on June 3, 2021, nine years after it left. Once restored, the simulator will go on static display at the Lone Star Flight Museum at Ellington Airport.

Space shuttle simulator returns to NASA to be restored for display

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A space shuttle simulator has returned to NASA's Johnson Space Center almost a decade after it was last "flown."

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Joe Engle's name tag displays the U.S. Air Force astronaut wings that he earned flying the X-15 rocket plane before flying two space shuttle missions for NASA.

Astronaut's rocket plane and space shuttle artifacts to go in display in Wisconsin

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The rocket plane manual and space shuttle logs kept by NASA astronaut Joe Engle will be exhibited by an aviation museum dedicated to experimental aircraft.

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STS-114 Crew Rehearses Shuttle Launch, Escape Plans

STS-114 Crew Rehearses Shuttle Launch, Escape Plans

By Tariq Malik last updated

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