How Star Trek fans changed the name of NASA’s first space shuttle
These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...
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A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
One shuttle’s name even made reference to the television spacecraft, Enterprise. The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. Tony Hertz Telegram ...
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The space shuttle
An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly ... We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special ...
On this date: Nixon directs NASA to build space shuttle program
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle ...
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A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
If Kraft is to be believed, cost overruns began really catching up to the shuttle program in 1978, necessitating the big meeting at Johnson Space Center. By then the Enterprise had already made ...