Alabama Public Radio

NASA tears down old Apollo test stands in Alabama, while prepping for Artemis-2

NASA began demolishing part of its own history over the weekend. Crews at the Marshall Space Flight Center are removing the ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA plans to demolish the iconic Saturn V and Shuttle test towers

The skyline of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is about to change in a way that closes a defining chapter ...
Space.com on MSN

OTD In Space - January 4: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Moon Mission

On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...

Historic NASA test structures demolished at Marshall Space Flight Center

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ( WAFF) - The landscape at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has changed forever. Two very large and ...

Space Shuttle Discovery to remain at Smithsonian where it rightfully belongs

However, Space.com reports that NASA and the Smithsonian have concluded that the cost just to move the shuttle would be at ...
Orlando Sentinel

Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a novel ...
Yahoo! Sports

Apollo Astronauts to Congress: Bring Back the Space Shuttle

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Astronomy

The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...