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BBC ON THIS DAY | 29 | 1988: Shuttle blasts US back into space The space shuttle, Discovery, lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1637 BST after a 90-minute delay due to unsuitable weather conditions Half a million people in the streets around the Kennedy Space Center watched the take-off, which Nasa said went without a hitch
BBC ON THIS DAY | 9 | 1995: Space pioneers take first small steps Michael Foale has become the first British-born American to walk in space Dr Foale - originally from Lincolnshire - and Dr Bernard Harris, the first black astronaut, stepped out into the open cargo bay of Nasa's space shuttle Discovery at 1210 GMT They were testing a modified space suit and astronaut endurance With his parents and American wife Mary watching by satellite link in a London TV
BBC ON THIS DAY | 24 | 1990: Hubble telescope takes off for space The American space agency Nasa has successfully launched the space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral in Florida on its historic mission to carry the Hubble space telescope into orbit 380 miles (611 5 km) above the Earth The telescope will operate from high above the atmosphere, thus avoiding the interference which limits ground-based telescopes It will be able to see up to the edge of
Space shuttle Discovery returns to Earth - BBC News The shuttle Discovery has landed back on Earth after a two-week mission to the International Space Station (ISS) The orbiter touched down on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center at 0908 local time (1308 GMT) Discovery had been held in space earlier in the day by stubborn fog and showers in the Kennedy area, but was eventually given the "go" to descend The orbiter has restocked the station
Space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Florida - BBC News The space shuttle Discovery has blasted off on its mission to the International Space Station (ISS) The shuttle, on one of the final missions before the programme is shut down at the end of 2010, is hauling equipment and supplies to the station The astronauts are due to carry out three spacewalks
BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 1998: Oldest astronaut back on Earth American senator John Glenn, the world's oldest astronaut, has landed back on Earth after an historic nine-day mission In 1962 Mr Glenn became the first American in orbit in a Friendship 7 capsule that took five hours to circle the Earth three times before crash-landing into the Caribbean Today the 77-year-old astronaut and his six crew mates aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery glided safely
Calculating Space Shuttle Velocity: Astronaut Melroys Historic Flight Homework Statement Problem Statement: Astronaut Pam Melroy, history's 3rd woman space shuttle pilot, flew the space shuttle discovery to the International Space Station to complete construction in October of 2000 To undock from the space station, Pilot Melroy released goooks holding the 2
BBC NEWS | Science Nature | Shuttles heat-resistant surfaces The wing of space shuttle Columbia was badly damaged by a suitcase-sized chunk of foam during lift-off The foam slipped off the launch system's external tank and breached the orbiter's heatshield panels, letting hot gases into the shuttle when it tried to re-enter the atmosphere 16 days later