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A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi, 1981.
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First Launch of Atlantis on Mission STS-51J - This Day in 1985.
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Atlantis Gets Its NameCredit: BoeingThe space shuttle Atlantis gets its name at Rockwell’s Palmdale plant in this image from March 15, 1985.
Inside the Private NASA Beach House Where Astronauts Chill Out Before Space
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Before the astronauts of Space Shuttle Atlantis get suited up to go to space one last time this week, they’ll repeat a ritual familiar to every crew before them: kissing their spouses goodbye in private. To do that, they go to the beach house.
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The inside view of a liquid hydrogen tank designed for the Space Shuttle external tank, viewed on February 1, 1977. At 154 feet long and more than 27 feet in diameter, the external tank is the largest component of the Space Shuttle, the structural backbone of the entire Shuttle system, and is the only part of the vehicle that is not reusable.
Source: NASA
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Tomorrow’s cover today: inner space is useful. Outer space is history.
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Engineer tinkers with the ceramic plating on Discovery.
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Against a black night sky, the Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew head toward Earth-orbit and a scheduled linkup with the International Space Station (ISS).
