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The Pathfinder space shuttle orbiter simulator, modified from its original NASA build and mounted atop an external tank and solid rocket boosters at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will benefit from a Save America's Treasures $500,000 federal conservation grant.

Rocket Center gets $500K grant to 'save' mock NASA space shuttle

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

An early space shuttle mockup qualified as an "American Treasure" worthy of preservation and a half-a-million-dollar federal grant.

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Crew Compartment Trainer-2 (CCT-2), the second of two orbiter nose section mockups used to train space shuttle astronauts at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, will be moving to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum in Oklahoma.

Tulsa Air and Space lands last of NASA's shuttle crew cabin trainers

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

NASA's last space shuttle mockup still on its astronaut training room floor has landed a new educational mission in Oklahoma.

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Puppeteer Caroll Spinney holds a photograph of himself and two "Sesame Street" puppets he controlled in 2012.

Caroll Spinney, Big Bird on 'Sesame Street' Who Once Considered a Shuttle Flight, Dies at 85

By Elizabeth Howell published

Carroll Spinney, the puppeteer who died on Sunday at age 85, didn't make it to space because Big Bird was too tall for the space shuttle.

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This head-on photograph of NASA's space shuttle Columbia was taken during post-landing servicing on Rogers dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California.

The First Space Shuttle Flight Into Space

By Nola Taylor Tillman published

The first launch of the space shuttle Columbia touched off a new era in space flight.

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Skylab 3 science pilot Owen Garriott is seen stationed at the Apollo Telescope Mount console aboard the Skylab space station.

Owen Garriott, Skylab and Space Shuttle Astronaut, Dies at 88

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Owen Garriott, a Skylab and space shuttle astronaut who was the first to use amateur radio from orbit, has died at the age of 88

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Astronauts Jim Buchli and Janet Kavandi were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame during a ceremony on Saturday, April 6, 2019, under the display of the retired space shuttle Atlantis at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. They unveiled their plaques, which will be placed in the Hall of Fame at the visitor complex.

Astronaut Hall of Fame Adds Space Shuttle Fliers Jim Buchli, Janet Kavandi

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Shuttle astronauts Jim Buchli and Janet Kavendi are the latest inductees to the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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Shuttle Veterans Buchli, Kavandi to Enter Astronaut Hall of Fame

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A member of NASA's "Thirty-Five New Guys" and the 35th woman to fly into space will enter the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in April.

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NASA astronaut Rick Searfoss, seen here as STS-76 pilot in 1996, is seen on the aft flight deck of space shuttle Atlantis

Astronaut Rick Searfoss, Who Flew On Three Space Shuttle Missions, Dies at 62

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

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"The Race for Space" album

A Space-Themed Band from London Just Rocked Out with NASA's Shuttle Enterprise in NYC

By Chelsea Gohd published

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STS-6 crewmates Don Peterson (at right) and Story Musgrave perform the first shuttle-era spacewalk outside Challenger in 1983.

Astronaut Don Peterson, Who Made First Shuttle Spacewalk, Dies at 84

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Astronaut Don Peterson, who first trained for a classified space station before he became one of the first people to spacewalk from the space shuttle, has died at 84.

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