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Most Read. In Pictures: Hindus bathe in frothy, polluted Indian river. In the space shuttle Atlantis successfully docked at the Russian space station Mir, bringing the two great space programs closer together in an era of cooperation that stood in marked contrast to the early days of the space race. Tragedy struck again in February when the program lost its second shuttle: Columbia disintegrated over Texas just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing, and all seven crew members were lost.
Despite this heartbreaking setback, the space shuttle was flying regularly again by And in February Endeavour brought up the Cupola, a robotic control station with seven windows that provides the ISS crew with a degree view.
In , U. President George W. Bush announced that the space shuttles would be retired. The final flight came to a close when Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center on July 21, The three remaining orbiters and the prototype shuttle, Enterprise, are now be housed in museums in California, Florida, New York, and Virginia.
For its next phase of manned space exploration, NASA is designing and building the spacecraft needed to send humans deeper into the solar system, working toward a goal of putting people on Mars. The Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, for example, is being developed to take four astronauts on day missions. NASA is also developing the Space Launch System, an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle designed for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
In addition, the space agency is partnering with private companies such as Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, to launch commercial vehicles to the ISS-and perhaps beyond. All rights reserved. Shuttle Ferry If weather conditions are favorable, returning space shuttles land at Kennedy Space Center. Program Liftoff On April 12, , John Young and Robert Crippen launched the space shuttle program by piloting Columbia to space and returning successfully two days later.
End of an Era In , U. In February, , the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere, killing all seven crew members on board, the second fatal shuttle accident after the catastrophic launch failure of Challenger in Following the Columbia disaster, shuttle flights were suspended for more than two years. And in , President George Bush revealed his administration's Vision for Space Exploration, announcing that the program would be terminated after the end of the construction of the International Space Station.
The Columbia accident finally wiped away the facade that the shuttle program was ever going to be what it was originally cracked up to be when President Nixon approved it in And most of the reasons for that were because of compromises made back in the s when the shuttle was being designed due to cutbacks in the budget.
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