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Key moments in NASA's Space Shuttle program and NASA LaRC, Hampton's role in development

Created by RobertY on Jun 22, 2011

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• Final mission for the Space Shuttle program
  Jul 9, 2011

  The Shuttle Atlantis flies the 135th and final mission for NASA and the U.S.
  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

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  Jun 22, 2011 2:44 PM

• Shuttle returns to space
  Jul 1, 2005

  Langley research helped pave the way to resumption of space shuttle flights with Space Shuttle Discovery's 2005 flight.
  http://www.npr.org/series/4750299/the-mission-of-space-shuttle-discovery

• Columbia disintegrates during re-entry
  Feb 1, 2003

  The Space Shuttle Discovery, damaged during liftoff, disintegrated during the point of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts died.
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/columbia/

• Langley scientist Stephen Robinson on shuttle flight
  Aug 7, 1997

  Former Langley scientist, Stephen Robinson on the space shuttle's 85th flight.
  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/robinson.html

• 100th human space flight
  Jul 5, 1995

  Also marked the first docking of a U.S. space shuttle with the Russian space station MIR
  http://www.russianspaceweb.com/mir.html

• 50th Space Shuttle mission
  Sep 12, 1992

  Married couple Mark C. Lee and Jan Davis serve together on Space Shuttle mission STS-47; first time a married couple worked on same mission.
  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/davis.html

• Hubble telescope in orbit
  Apr 25, 1990

  The Space Shuttle Discovery crew launches the Hubble telescope during this mission.
  http://hubble.nasa.gov/

• Astronaut John Glenn, 77, returns to space
  Jul 1, 1988

  Astronaut Glenn serves aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/glenn-j.html

• Challenger explodes 73 seconds into mission
  Jan 28, 1986

  All seven crew members were lost in the explosion at takeoff.

• Langley pilot Fred Gregory's first shuttle mission
  May 6, 1985

  In June 1974, Gregory was detailed to the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. He served as a research test pilot at Langley until selected for the Astronaut Program in January 1978.
  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/gregory-fd.html

• LaRC's Sage II satellite deployed
  Oct 5, 1984

  Astronaut Sally Ride deploys NASA Langley's atmospheric mapping satellite.
  http://www-sage2.larc.nasa.gov/

• First untethered spacewalk
  Feb 9, 1984

  Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered spacewalks in history during Space Shuttle mission STS-41
  http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask-academy/issues/volume2/AA_2-2_SF_history.html

• Guion Bluford
  Jul 1, 1983

  First African-American in space
  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/bluford-gs.html

• Sally Ride: First woman in space
  Jun 18, 1983

• Columbia's first voyage
  Apr 12, 1981

  The first shuttle flight blasts off from Florida

• Langley researchers begin shuttle work
  1969