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 CEV mockup
11.17.05 - Mockup Provides Early Glimpse of New Craft
A full-sized mockup of the Crew Exploration Vehicle's cockpit helps engineers visualize what drawings and diagrams cannot show.
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 A successful, 28-second test firing of a 48-inch-diameter, modified NASA motor at Marshall Space Flight Center on March 24, 2005
03.25.05 - Testing A Giant 'Bottle Rocket'
NASA successfully tests a 48-inch modified motor.
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 Space Shuttle Main Engine testing
08.19.05 - Shuttle Engine Tests: 30 Years and Counting
Every Space Shuttle Main Engine is test-fired at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
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 The PAD Abort Demonstrator (PAD) is a project in support of the Orbital Space Plane development.
12.01.03 - NASA Conducts PAD Abort Demonstration
Not since Apollo has NASA developed a spaceship designed to carry human beings on top of a rocket, but now nearly 40 years later that's exactly what it is doing.
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 Space Shuttle Columbia hitched a ride on a NASA 747 aircraft
08.22.03 - NASA's 747 Shuttle Carriers
All aircraft need to be balanced, and keeping their center of gravity in the right place is key.
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 Next generation spacecraft
The Right Stuff for Super Spaceships
Tomorrow's spacecraft will be built using advanced materials with mind-boggling properties.
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 Space Shuttle Endeavour
Shuttle Fun Facts
Learn interesting tid-bits about the Space Shuttle.
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 The Soyuz TMA2 approaches the International Space Station
06.14.03 - Space Shuttle and Soyuz Overview
There are currently only two vehicles capable of taking humans into space: the Russian Soyuz TMA spacecraft and the U.S. Space Shuttle.
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