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NASA’s Hot Rod Pontiac Helped Design the Space Shuttle

It’s no Fiero, but this Pontiac muscle car got fast and furious for science. It’s every street racer’s fantasy: The ...

Moving NASA Space Shuttle to Texas from DC Could Damage It, Experts Say

Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space ...
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White House Investigates Whether to Chop Space Shuttle Discovery Into Pieces

"It's like taking the Washington Monument, sawing it into pieces, and moving it somewhere." The post White House Investigates Whether to Chop Space Shuttle Discovery Into Pieces appeared first on ...
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NASA Space Shuttle : 1981 onwards (all models) : an insight into the design, construction and operation of the Nasa Space Shuttle / David Baker

Explores the shuttle's design, construction, and use and provides detailed information about the technical attention required before and after a mission. Contains an explanation of the operation of ...
Ars Technica

Senators try to halt shuttle move, saying “little evidence” of public demand

A former NASA astronaut turned US senator has joined with other lawmakers to insist that his two rides to space remain on display in the Smithsonian. "Why should hundreds of millions of taxpayer ...
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Space shuttles and interplanetary missions edited by L. Larmore and R.L. Gervais

Based on Shuttle, Precursor Missions, and Planetary and Lunar Space Station sessions of the American Astronautical Society's 16th annual meeting, June 8-10, 1970 pt. I. Space Shuttle. Progress in ...
Ars Technica

Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle

Texas lawmakers, seemingly not content with getting NASA's endorsement to move a retired space shuttle to Houston, are now calling for an investigation into how the Smithsonian allegedly objected to ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The World Is Still Waiting for the Great Space Cola

Fantastical conflicts in outer space were a staple of popular culture in the 1980s. Yet one battle that reached into the ...