NASA Orbiter Fleet Whether awaiting liftoff from Kennedy Space Center's launch pads or undergoing Space-Age upgrades, NASA's space shuttle orbiters -- Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour -- are majestic in appearance, intricate in design, and infinite in the possibilities they offer mankind in the exploration of...
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The name of NASA's newest orbiter, Endeavour was selected from names submitted by school children around the world. Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, was originally to be named Constitution (in honor of the U.S. Constitution's Bicentennial). However, viewers of the popular TV Science Fiction show Star Trek...
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Columbia (OV-102), the first of NASA's orbiter fleet, was delivered to Kennedy Space Center in March 1979. Columbia initiated the Space Shuttle flight...
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, this view covers an area about 3 kilometers (2 miles) wide.
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"It is an honor to be selected by Popular Science for Best of What's New in aviation," said Craig Tooley, LRO project manager from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There was tremendous excitement about the United States returning to the moon after many years.
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Humans are a step closer to returning to the moon after NASA launched a lunar orbiter Thursday to provide a comprehensive survey of our nearest celestial neighbor. NASA hopes orbiter can help identify safe landing sites and moon resources...
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Jul 18, 2009 With the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing just two days away, NASA on Friday released the sharpest images ever taken of astronaut...
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Operational Shuttle Fleet The name of NASA's newest orbiter, Endeavour was selected from names submitted by school children around the world. Return to NASA Home Page Return to KSC Science Home Page...
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NASA Orbiter Finds Martian Rock Record With 10 Beats to the Bar ; Researchers using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera report the first measurement of a periodic signal in the rocks of Mars.
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Built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), CRISM is one of six science instruments on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, currently circling the planet. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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