In its twenty-five-year history, NASA's Space Shuttle program (officially called Space Transportation System or STS), has flown more than one hundred missions. It has enjoyed extraordinary success (such as the building of the International Space Station,
With animated illustrations explaining each part of the space shuttle, and sidebars summarizing the problems encountered with Columbia and Discovery, Howstuffworks is my pick of the day.
The NASA History site organizes information from various NASA websites into a single archive.
As I write this, STS-115 (Space Shuttle Atlantis) is on its way to the International Space Station.
Written for middle-school students (and their teachers) by educator Anthony R.
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