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Watch the Soviets build their own space shuttle - then fly it without a pilot

The Soviet Buran was built to rival NASA's Space Shuttle and became the only space shuttle to complete an orbital mission ...
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OTD in space – July 26: Space shuttle returns to flight with STS-114

On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first "Return to Flight" mission following the Columbia disaster that killed seven crewmembers a little over two years earlier. [‘On This ...
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Armchair astronaut: flying the Space Shuttle simulator

The Space Shuttle was the first reusable space vehicle – one that could return to Earth and land like an aircraft. Each orbiter was designed to have a life span of 100 launches. While the planned ...
Reuters

Timeline: NASA's 30-year space shuttle program winding down

(Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. Shuttle Endeavour is due to launch on Friday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...