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World’s Oldest Satellite Has Been in Space for 67 Years. Engineers Want to Bring It Home
Vanguard-1 is the second U.S. satellite launched to space. Conceived by the Naval Research Laboratory in 1955, it was ...
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Spectacular images of the cosmos released to celebrate Hubble’s 35 years in orbit
A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...
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Aging gracefully: The Hubble Telescope is in 'excellent technical condition' on its 35th birthday, its chief scientist says
By teaming up with the James Webb Space Telescope, or by scientists delving into its long history of observations, Hubble is ...
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Evolution of the Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995 ... with one hatch opening into the mid-deck and the other into the payload bay. In the early 1990s, the airlock was enlarged to 185 cubic feet and moved ...
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Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions
Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...
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The Soviet's Buran Space Shuttle Was a True One-Hit Wonder
The payload bay was 60 feet long with a 15-foot diameter. Unfortunately, in 2002 the hangar storing the Buran collapsed, destroying the lone Soviet space shuttle. Harrison Kass is a defense and ...
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The Secret Space Shuttles
The first group of Manned Spacecraft Engineers selected for military space shuttle flights ... is long (hence the need for the shuttle’s large payload bay) to listen in on ground communications ...