There Are Good Reasons Why NASA Stopped Using The Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle program was a great idea in concept, but flawed execution led to its demise. Here are the problems it ...
SpaceNews

Shuttle Program Manager Announces Personnel Changes

Space Shuttle Program Manager Bill Parsons today announced several key leadership changes within the office as it reorganizes and evolves following the Columbia accident. “This is a critical time for ...
Newsweek

7 Photos Show Iconic NASA Space Shuttle Moments, a Decade Since Last Flight

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at ...
Astronomy

The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...
Time

A Photo History of the Space Shuttle Program

As NASA prepares for its final shuttle mission, a look at more than three decades of triumphs and tragedies Formally introduced by President Nixon on Jan. 5, 1972, the shuttle program set out, in the ...
WESH

Jimmy Carter's impact on space program remembered as legacy lives on in the stars

REPORTED THE WORDS OF JIMMY CARTER LIVE ON. FAR FROM HOME AS WELL. NASA’S VOYAGER ONE, THE MOST DISTANT HUMAN MADE OBJECT FROM EARTH, CARRIES A MESSAGE FROM HIM. HISTORY MAY SHOW OTHER PRESIDENTS WITH ...
SpaceNews

Boeing Names Former NASA Engineer to Head Space Shuttle Program

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 28, 2008 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has named veteran NASA space shuttle engineer John P. Mulholland its new Space Shuttle vice president and program manager. With more than more ...