NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...

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Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets ...

What caused NASA’s Columbia space shuttle to break apart during re-entry, killing all seven astronauts and changing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...

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The five-month mission to the ISS was extended by a further two months after the Columbia disaster happened in February 2003 and grounded the Space Shuttle fleet. Petit would return to the ISS in ...

NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the ... space-worthy orbiter in the fleet — was identified as the agency's vehicle-of-record and entered the Smithsonian so that ...

Including the mission that corrected the flawed mirror, NASA has dispatched five servicing missions to keep the Hubble going, the last occurring in 2009, two years before the space shuttle fleet ...