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On this day in space! Jan. 20, 1978: 1st Progress cargo delivery ship launched
By Hanneke Weitering last updated
On January 23, 1942, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) founded the Aircraft Engine Laboratory, which was renamed Lewis Research Center after NASA was established in 1958.
The most memorable space shuttle missions
By Clara Moskowitz last updated
The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program.
Buran: The Soviet space shuttle that flew just once
By Tariq Malik last updated
The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's space shuttle program.
Full-size mock space shuttle makes first move towards Downey display
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration."
Signed steel beams 'top off' L.A. home for space shuttle Endeavour
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The new home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, has reached new heights and the California Science Center is celebrating with a "topping off" ceremony.
Mock shuttle Pathfinder restored atop its stack at Alabama rocket center (photos)
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
An early mockup of NASA's winged orbiters, Pathfinder was returned to its position atop a space shuttle propulsion "stack" at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Endeavour lifted onto space shuttle stack for California Science Center exhibit (video)
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
A space shuttle is standing upright for the first time in more than a decade. Cranes lifted Endeavour off a Los Angeles side street and onto an external tank with solid rocket boosters for display.
Watch a crane lift space shuttle Endeavour into place for museum exhibit early Jan. 30 (video)
By Mike Wall published
A crane will install the space shuttle Endeavour at its California Science Center home early Tuesday morning (Jan. 30), and you can watch the action live.
Last built-for-flight external tank lifted into place for space shuttle Endeavour exhibit
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
NASA's last-existing, built-for-flight space shuttle external tank took to the sky, briefly leaving the ground to become part of the California Science Center's space shuttle Endeavour exhibit.
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