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Endeavour in Leading Role to Educate, Inspire Future Explorers

By Bob Granath | July 10, 2023

For more than a decade, NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour has been the star attraction at the California Science Center. During that time, more than 18 million guests at the West Coast museum have learned about the Space Shuttle Program’s legacy. After 25 flights to space during the first 20 years of its career, Endeavour departed the agency’s Kennedy Space Center soon arriving at its new home beginning an ongoing role educating and encouraging explorers of tomorrow.

Space Center’s Visitor Complex: A Window into NASA Operations

By Bob Granath | July 27, 2022

n the summer of 1966, America’s space program raced forward with Gemini flights in Earth orbit while new facilities were built to meet President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon. During that time, NASA provided an opportunity to view work going on inside the gates of the agency’s Kennedy Space Center. In years to come, the visitor complex became one of the premier attractions in Florida.

Space Shuttle Superlatives Create Bigger-Than-Life ‘Gee Whiz’ Facts

By Bob Granath | September 17, 2021

The Space Shuttle era was one of superlatives. Everything was bigger than life. The factoids associated with the program are examples of the historic size, capabilities and achievements of the shuttle and the team that made their achievements possible.

Elite Team Managed Shuttle’s Controls During Ground Ops

By Bob Granath | March 30, 2021

From the Space Shuttle’s first flight in 1981 to its final mission in 2011, thousands of professionals made the program a technical marvel. On the front line were highly skilled mechanics, technicians and engineers whose innovative work launched landmark missions such as deployment of the Space Telescope and assembly of the Space Station. For one elite group of spacecraft operators, their workstation was the space program’s “inner sanctum” — the shuttle’s crew modules.

American Flag Captured by NASA’s First Commercial Crew

By Bob Granath | June 14, 2020

When NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken lifted off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020, it marked the beginning of a new era of human spaceflight. When they arrived at the International Space Station, they marked the milestone by capturing an American flag in a competition that started almost a decade earlier.

Versatile Space Shuttle Turns Sci-Fi into Reliable Access to Orbit

By Bob Granath | July 24, 2019

Over the past three decades America’s Space Shuttle has established a legacy of rewriting the history of space flight. During that time, astronauts shuttled to and from low Earth orbit showing again and again the value of the human element in this challenging endeavor.

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