One of the jewels in NASA’s crown – the Hubble Space Telescope – is continuing to expand our understanding of the universe, with new findings uncovering a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago. However, the discovery was made via an instrument delivered by Shuttle Atlantis during her STS-125 mission, as her legacy lives on long after her retirement.
Atlantis
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The culmination of a 40 plus year enterprise comes today – an endeavor that sought…
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A few days after the high-visibility move of Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour to her retirement…
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And now Endeavour has the left the building. At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA…
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One year to the day since Atlantis launched on her final mission, the exceptional performance by…
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Atlantis is closing in on the end of her Transition and Retirement (T&R) processing, following…
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Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery’s almost 30 years of processing at Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Orbiter…
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With Kennedy Space Center workers towing Orbiter Atlantis on Thursday “around the corner” of the…
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It’s the final time Endeavour will enter an OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility). After a storied…
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Atlantis departed her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) on Friday, ahead of arriving inside the Vehicle Assembly…
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All good things must come to an end. And thus was the grand finale of…
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Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis was powered down for the final time on Thursday, following a…
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For Atlantis, the last decade of her career would be marked with many more triumphs…
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With Atlantis’s early years behind her, the middle years of OV-104’s impressive career would serve…
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The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis, in many ways the middle-child orbiter of the Space Shuttle…
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With Discovery safely back on the ground after becoming the first orbiter to successfully complete…
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And so to the end. With a flawless countdown and a launch into a clear…
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United Space Alliance engineers are working a tentative plan to de-stack Atlantis, pending official confirmation…
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Space shuttle Endeavour has been escorted on a mini tour of the Kennedy Space Center…
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With STS-125 delayed until at least mid-February, Atlantis has completed her trek back to the…