The repairs carried out in May by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis are expected to be the last.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

But, the space shuttle program has come to represent the success,and tragedy, of discovery at the limits of our world.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

Mister Sumrall says NASA estimates the new Ares One will be twenty to thirty times safer than the Space Shuttle.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

The largest object ever put into space -- the International Space Station -- could not have been built without the shuttle program.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The loss of the space shuttle Columbia in February of two thousand three led to an investigation by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Once the shuttle is retired this year, the only way for the United States to get astronauts into orbit will be on Russian Soyuz rockets.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

It was put in place to help protect the space shuttle from bird strike damage.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

That could help ease some of the concern about job losses after the shuttle retirement.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle,or the ship;

VOA: special.2009.11.23

On January twenty-eight nineteen eighty-six, shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after take off.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

The shuttle program has played an important part in expanding space science.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Near the end of June, the shuttle Atlantis will return to space.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

For now,NASA has plans for only three more space shuttle flights.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

On March twenty-second, NASA again ordered the astronauts on the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of another piece of debris from a rocket.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Shuttle crews placed the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

I'm child of the Columbia Space Shuttle, and I need to know all the electronic gimmicks invented yesterday that are already primitive cousins to those developed today from eight to five P.M.in Japan.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

"Booster ignition and lift off for space shuttle Discovery, taking the space station to full power for full science,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Astronaut Tim Kopra will travel to the station to replace Koichi Wakata, who will return to Earth aboard the shuttle.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach said the crew did not let the one-day delay have a negative impact on them.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

NASA plans to retire the shuttle fleet, bringing US manned space flight to an end, for the forseeable future.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

There are only three shuttle flights remaining before the fleet is set to be retired, later this year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Shuttle test director Stephen Payne said the lunar mission team agreed to allow Endeavour to take the launch pad,or range, on Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

It has been a busy time in outer space for the astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis and on the International Space Station.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Some shuttle workers had hoped to get jobs developing a rocket and capsule to take astronauts back to the Moon by 2020.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18