Gathering in person to watch a space shuttle landing may be a tradition of the past, but a look back is reigniting the excitement among the space-loving community.

Unusually high winds at Edwards Air Force Base forced an iconic landing at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. This marked the only shuttle landing at White Sands. First American woman in ...

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as part of the Shuttle program’s Approach and Landing Tests (ALT). A tail cone over the main engine area of Enterprise smoothed out turbulent air flow during flight. Image: NASA NASA/ Dryden ...

On the day before each shuttle landing, Edwards allowed any number of strangers to park and camp. Huetter said the pilgrimages lasted only a decade, but his photos can remind us of this special ...