NASA’s Next Moon Rocket Runs on Shuttle Engines—Here’s the Story Behind Each One

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

Endeavour on its way to space station

The space shuttle Endeavour launched on time at 7:55 p.m. ET on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida, ...
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Space shuttle Endeavour hoisted for display in launch configuration at Los Angeles science museum

LOS ANGELES — NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday and attached to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will ...
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Endeavour Starts Mission With Last Nighttime Launch

Endeavour, NASA’s youngest space shuttle, became the final orbiter to lift off at night with its launch to the International Space Station (ISS) early Feb. 8. Built as a replacement after the shuttle ...
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Endeavour Looks Good After Launch

A night of inspections with an instrumented 50-foot extension on the space shuttle Endeavour’s robotic arm turned up no apparent damage to the delicate thermal protection system, although it will take ...