Prior to STS-114, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe declared that all future flights of the Space Shuttle would go to the ISS, precluding the possibility of executing the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which had been scheduled before the Columbia accident, despite the fact that millions of dollars worth of upgrade equipment for ...

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.

2025年3月19日 · From the first launch on April 12, 1981 to the final landing on July 21, 2011, NASA's space shuttle fleet flew 135 missions, helped construct the International Space Station and inspired generations.

The Space Transportation System (STS), also known internally to NASA as the Integrated Program Plan (IPP), [1] was a proposed system of reusable crewed space vehicles envisioned in 1969 to support extended operations beyond the Apollo program (NASA appropriated the name for its Space Shuttle Program, the only component of the proposal to ...

2023年7月7日 · S79-31775 (29 April 1979) — These two astronauts are the prime crewmen for the first flight in the Space Transportation System (STS-1) program. Astronauts John W. Young, left, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, will man the space shuttle orbiter 102 Columbia for the first orbital flight test.

STS从1981年首飞到2011年退役，一共服役了30年。在服役生涯中，STS一共建造了5架正样轨道器：哥伦比亚号（Columbia）、挑战者号（Chllenger）、发现号（Discovery）、亚特兰蒂斯号（Atlantis）和奋进号（Endeavor）。所有轨道器都以早期欧美远洋船命名。

2025年3月17日 · Jack R. Lousma was selected as one of the 19 astronauts in NASA’s Astronuat Group 5. After spending 59 days in space on the Skylab space station, Lousma was named the commander of STS-3, his final space flight.

2022年11月3日 · The Space Shuttle program ran from presidential approval in 1972 to its end in 2011. It was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the United States and NASA. The Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS), was the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into orbit.

2025年1月13日 · Discover the highs, lows, and legacy of NASA's space shuttle program, from the first flight of Columbia to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [1]