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A Look Back at NASA's Shuttle Program

As the final shuttle mission wraps up, here's a glance back in photos at the 30-year program.
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Columbia kicked off NASA's space shuttle program with its inaugural launch on April 12, 1

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Mission Specialist Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space in June 1983. T

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In February 1984, austronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the pro

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Tragedy struck the shuttle program on January 28, 1986, when an explosion destroyed the C

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The shuttle program did not return to flight again until two and a half years later with

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Atlantis was rolled out in late 1988 for its third mission, which was a classified effort

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In 1990 Discovery crew members first deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been

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After a 15 day and 21 hour-long mission, one of the longest in NASA history, the Columbia

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Columbia took off for mission STS-107 on January 16, 2003. The orbiter and all seven crew

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In December 2008, the shuttle Endeavor was ferried from Edwards Air Force Base in Califor

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