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How the Inspiration4 Mission Fits Into the Long History of Civilian Space Travel

Payload specialists in training for STS-51L take a break in shuttle emergency egress training in 1986. Left to right: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan. McAuliffe was selected as ...
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With Private Space Flight On the Rise, Who Gets to Be Called 'Astronaut?'

The crew of the Inspiration4, the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit. From left: Hayley Arceneaux, Dr. Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman, and Chris Sembroski photographed in Los Angeles, July 2021 ...
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Former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar speaks on shuttle legacy, future of Artemis program

As NASA’s Artemis program advances following its first crewed mission to the moon April 10, former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar ...
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Post-Challenger Assessment of Space Shuttle Flight Rates and Utilization

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Space shuttle Challenger remembered 40 years after explosion

Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited the ...