👤 Person

Space Shuttle

Partially reusable launch system and space plane

📊 Rating

2 news mentions · 👍 0 likes · 👎 0 dislikes

📌 Topics

Space Exploration (1)
Gender Equality (1)
Space exploration risks (1)
Engineering ethics (1)
Organizational failures (1)
Public interest in space program (1)

🏷️ Keywords

Eileen Collins (1) · NASA astronaut (1) · Space Shuttle (1) · first woman commander (1) · Air Force (1) · barrier breaking (1) · space history (1) · Challenger disaster (1) · NASA (1) · Space shuttle (1) · Christa McAuliffe (1) · O-ring failure (1) · Engineer warnings (1) · 60 Minutes (1) · Lesley Stahl (1)

📖 Key Information

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was the Space Transportation System (STS), taken from the 1969 plan led by U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development. The first (STS-1) of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights (STS-5) beginning in 1982.

📰 Related News (2)

🇺🇸 Retired NASA astronaut and Air Force Col. Eileen Collins on breaking barriers in space (2026-03-21)
Retired NASA astronaut and Air Force Col. Eileen Collins joins "CBS Saturday Morning" to discuss her groundbreaking journey to become the first woman ...
🇺🇸 "January 28, 1986" | 60 Minutes Archive (2026-01-28)
On January 28, 1986, NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and all seven astronauts on board were killed, including teacher Christa McAuliffe. Ten ...

🔗 Entity Intersection Graph

People and organizations frequently mentioned alongside Space Shuttle:

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster · 1 shared articles
NASA · 1 shared articles
Christa McAuliffe · 1 shared articles
Air force · 1 shared articles
Eileen Collins · 1 shared articles
NASA Astronaut Corps · 1 shared articles