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The longest orbital flight of the Shuttle was STS-80 at 17 days 15 hours, while the shortest flight was STS-51-L at one minute 13 seconds when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart during launch. The cold morning shrunk an O-Ring on the right Solid Rocket Booster causing the external fuel tank to explode.
1989 aerial view. Pituffik Space Base (/ b iː d uː ˈ f iː k / bee-doo-FEEK; [2] Greenlandic:; IATA: THU, ICAO: BGTL), formerly and perhaps better known as Thule Air Base (/ ˈ t uː l iː /), is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland in the Kingdom of Denmark under a defense agreement between Denmark and the United States.
The SLS rocket was designated to replace the Space Shuttle program in 2011 and serve as the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program, but has faced nearly a decade of delays and ...
Thule Site J (J-Site) is a United States Space Force (USSF) radar station in Greenland near Pituffik Space Base for missile warning and spacecraft tracking.The northernmost station of the Solid State Phased Array Radar System, the military installation was built as the 1st site of the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System and had 5 of 12 BMEWS radars.
Scientists are drilling down 2.5km into Greenland's ice cap for ice cores dating back 80,000 years, to better understanding future climate changes [Getty Images] Some key dates in Greenland's history:
Space Launch System or a commercial rocket NASA: Lander In progress Would depend on the Europa Clipper to select a landing site and assess radiation levels. Once landed, it would search for biosignatures and authenticate and determine the proximity of liquid water. 5 Europa Orbiter: Europa Orbiter: 2003 Space Shuttle: NASA: Orbiter Cancelled
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI . [2]
Space Shuttle Atlantis: Kennedy LC-39B STS-30: NASA Low Earth Interplanetary probe deployment: 8 May 05:43: Successful Magellan: NASA Cytherean: Radar mapping: 12 October 1994: Successful Crewed orbital flight with 5 astronauts 5 May 13:00 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Kosmos 2019 (Zenit-8) Low Earth Reconnaissance: 18 May: Successful 10 May 19:47 Titan 34D ...