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Posts Tagged ‘Space Shuttle’

Former space shuttle engines moving to Stennis

by MBJ Staff Published: January 15,2012

Tags: aerospace, engines, space, space exploration, Space Shuttle, space travel, technology

HANCOCK COUNTY — The relocation of the RS-25D space shuttle main engine inventory from Kennedy Space Center’s Engine Shop in Cape Canaveral, Fla., is underway. The RS-25D flight engines, repurposed for NASA’s Space Launch System, are being moved to NASA’s Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi. The Space Launch System (SLS) is a new heavy-lift [...] [...]

Last space shuttle comes home, ends 30-year era (access required)

by Associated Press Published: July 21,2011

Tags: Atlantis, NASA, Space Shuttle

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis is back on Earth, and the shuttle era is over. Atlantis and its four astronauts glided through the twilight Thursday and landed in Florida shortly before sunrise. Hundreds gathered near the runway to welcome Atlantis home — and to bid NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program goodbye. Atlantis’ successful [...] [...]

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