space shuttle
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In 2004, a Senate subcommittee gathered on Capitol Hill to ask a question that now sounds quaint: Could America still reach space without the space shuttle?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
He first flew aboard space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station in 2009.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has already cut the cost of reaching space by 95% relative to the space shuttle.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
“That cannot be right,” Livingston Holder, a former manned spaceflight engineer with the Air Force and space shuttle payload specialist, recalled thinking when he first heard that fact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
In 2011, the United States discontinued its space shuttle program.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
