Tag: Space Shuttle

  • Reporters remember Challenger coverage

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Media representatives converge on memorial service for Challenger’s crew at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Jan. 31, 1986. Credit: NASA Veteran CBS News correspondent Bruce Hall was not on the air when the shuttle Challenger blasted off 30 years ago Thursday. It was, after all, the…

  • Challenger remembered

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION June Scobee Rodgers, widow of Challenger commander Dick Scobee, lays a wreath with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in 2014. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Thirty years after the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated in the clear, cold sky high above Cape…

  • Endeavour reunited with Spacehab payload in museum

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    The Spacehab module is lifted into Endeavour’s payload bay Thursday. Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Two years after it paraded through the streets of Los Angeles following a cross-country ferry flight from Florida, the space shuttle Endeavour was loaded with a Spacehab logistics module Thursday ahead of the orbiter’s planned transition to a vertical display…

  • X-37B space planes to move into shuttle hangars

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    An X-37B space plane sits on a runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., after landing on its second mission in June 2012. Credit: Boeing Boeing engineers are outfitting two decommissioned space shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center for the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane, NASA announced Wednesday. The announcement in a…