space shuttle
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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
Almost 40 years after the space shuttle Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, there are still competing theories to account for how such a catastrophe could happen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
"I've been always passionate about space, I remember my seventh birthday cake was a space shuttle," explains Farboud Foroughi, an engineering student at the University of Strathclyde.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
“The space shuttle program really helped to democratize spaceflight.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
The final space shuttle mission ended when the Atlantis landed on July 21, 2011.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
