AstronautAtlas
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Space programs and missions · A guided course
A reusable spacecraft, an orbital workplace and a difficult safety legacy
Follow the Shuttle from its design and first flights to laboratories, telescope servicing and station assembly. Examine what reuse required on the ground, how crews worked in orbit, and what the Challenger and Columbia investigations revealed.
Suggested preparation is listed in the course · Start whenever you’re ready
Columbia touches down at Edwards Air Force Base on April 14, 1981, completing the first Space Shuttle mission with John Young and Robert Crippen aboard.
NASA/JSC · Image sourceYour place in the bigger picture
Build on familiar ideas, then choose a direction to explore next. Every course remains open.
Learning to meet, work and stay in space
Follow stations, transport and international cooperation
The Space Shuttle program
A reusable spacecraft, an orbital workplace and a difficult safety legacy
Start whenever you’re ready. Preparation is suggested, and every course stays open.
Learning to share a long stay in orbit
Move cargo, test a connection, judge the outcome
One suggested order from the foundations to The Space Shuttle program. Shared starting points appear once; skip anything you already know.
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