space shuttle

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With SpaceX’s forthcoming Starship, launch costs per kilogram are expected to fall to 1% of the costs under the space shuttle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

It had already been quite a year: the doomed Challenger space shuttle had exploded months earlier, and the disaster at Chernobyl was on everyone’s minds.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

Williams launched for the first time aboard space shuttle Discovery with STS-116 in December 2006 and returned aboard space shuttle Atlantis with the STS-117 crew.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026

"But I'm going to tell you it is harder to be a parent than to be a space shuttle commander," she laughs.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025

I trained astronauts, talked them through their science experiments while they were in orbit, and often went to Cape Canaveral for launches of the space shuttle and other rockets.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam