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Nasa space shuttle program timeline12/19/2023 Representative Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who later became a senator, flew in January 1986. A Saudi prince flies in June and then-U.S. goal to have a space transportation system and a space station in orbit.ĪpSpacewalking astronauts repair the Solar Maximum Mission satellite, the first in-orbit satellite servicing.ĪpConvinced the shuttle is safe enough for non-professional astronauts to fly, NASA launches shuttle Discovery on the program’s 16th flight with Republican Senator Jake Garn in the crew. The project, named Freedom, would fulfill the original post-Apollo U.S. JanuPresident Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address directs NASA to start working on a space station. The next flight in August includes the first African-American astronaut, Guion Bluford. JChallenger takes off on NASA’s seventh shuttle mission with a five-person crew that includes Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. Since then, shuttle astronauts have ventured out into open space another 161 times. On its fifth flight, Columbia carries two satellites into orbit.ĪpAstronauts Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson conduct the shuttle program’s first spacewalk. NovemAfter four test flights, NASA deems the shuttle an operational vehicle and doubles the crew size to four, including the first non-pilot astronaut, physicist Joe Allen. manned spaceflight since the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz docking. Apollo veteran John Young and rookie Bob Crippen are aboard for the 54.5-hour trial run. Instead, it was used for atmospheric flight, vibration and launch configuration tests.ĪpSpace shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the program’s inaugural flight. ![]() ![]() SeptemThe prototype shuttle Enterprise is unveiled, named after the spaceship in the popular TV show “Star Trek.” Without engines and a heat shield, Enterprise was never intended to fly in space. ![]() The spacecraft were to be designed to carry seven astronauts and up to 50,000 pounds (22,680 kg) of cargo into orbits a few hundred miles (km) from Earth. JanuPresident Richard Nixon signs a bill authorizing $5.5 billion to develop a reusable winged space transportation system called the space shuttle. Here is a timeline on the shuttle program:
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