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When King Charles Met NASA's Space Shuttle Enterprise As The Prince Of Wales
In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, ...
Yahoo1 个月
A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg ... Fulton, one of the 747’s four pilots who flew the jet from Edwards Air Force Base. “It’s easy to fly.” The shuttle was flown ...
Space.com24 天
The most memorable space shuttle missions
NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary ... Unusually high winds at Edwards Air Force Base forced an iconic landing at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
来自MSN1 年
Space shuttle Endeavour hoisted into 'launch position' at Science Center
More than 50 space shuttle missions landed at Edwards Air Force base in the Antelope Valley, and the signature “double sonic boom” could be heard in the SCV as the shuttles made their ...
Antelope Valley Press7 天
Old telemetry dish, pedestal receive new home at Edwards
What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many experimental aircraft, were tracked ...
New Scientist3 年
The space shuttle
Twenty years to the day since Yuri Gagarin flew in Vostok 1, the world’s first reusable spacecraft – and the most complex spacecraft ever built – was launched into orbit by the US.
The Harvard Crimson6 年
Kevin D. Katari
T HE Space Shuttle Atlantis landed last week at Edwards Air Force Base in California, successfully completing the second post-disaster The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est. 1873 ...