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"The whole shuttle programme was knocked for a loop when we lost Challenger.

July 21 - 2011: End of the Space Shuttle programme.

Jonathan highlights some of the most important missions and discusses why the Shuttle Programme was no longer sustainable.

Nevertheless, as it ends its Shuttle programme, Nasa finds itself at a crossroads.

In 2011 ISRO gave more details on its shuttle programme.

Columbia's first trip into orbit, which launched the Shuttle programme, quickly became a symbol of US power and dominance.

"It certainly got our attention," said Wayne Hale, Nasa's space shuttle programme manager.

So America's 30-year space shuttle programme, which ended when the Atlantis touched down last week, offered up the perfect raw materials for a gripping documentary.

But the end of Nasa's Space Shuttle Programme also signifies a new beginning in space travel.

It is allegedly listed by NASA, although never used, as an emergency diversionary landing strip for the space shuttle programme.

The shuttle programme was the result of a decision by President Richard Nixon's administration to shut down the Apollo programme to reduce federal spending.

This week, there has been much agonising over the future of Nasa, prompted by the final flight of the Space Shuttle programme.

Foxbat could swipe satellites from the skies like irritant flies; take the Russians leap-frogging ahead of the planned space shuttle programme.

The 26-year-old craft landed at dawn at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 21 July 2011, closing the shuttle programme.

July 21 - With the landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis the Space Shuttle programme comes to an end.

The Indian Space Shuttle Programme aims to design an indigenous Reusable Space Vehicle.

After identification of the problem on the VMS, it was used to try different longitudinal control algorithms and recommend the best for use in the Shuttle programme.

With the landing of Atlantis on 21 July of this year, Nasa's Space Shuttle Programme has come to a definite end.

July 21 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth in the last mission of the Space Shuttle programme.

The Bureau enlarged the "Ruslan" design even more for the Soviet space shuttle programme logistics, creating the An-225 "Mriya" in 1989.

While Nasa is celebrating the 30th anniversary and end of the Shuttle programme this year, it's also the 25th anniversary of the Challenger tragedy.

After the disaster, Nasa grounded all shuttle flights for two years as it was forced to face up to two tragedies in the relatively short life of the shuttle programme.

In the early eighties the government of Canada signed an agreement with the US regarding participation by Canada in the NASA space shuttle programme.

The airport was an official alternative (emergency) landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle, before the ending of Space Shuttle programme in July 2011.

Prof Logsdon says the decision to end the shuttle programme was made by President George W Bush in 2004 and his administration wanted Nasa to find a replacement.

Most important, ask the American people, who continue to provide strong support for the shuttle program.

The space shuttle program, for example, would end in 2010.

The shuttle program, on the other hand, is taken for granted.

"We were pounding on their door from the time the shuttle program began."

The term 921-3 is often used for the Chinese space shuttle program.

But people who have worked on the shuttle program call that view optimistic.

Shuttle program officials said engineers worked through the weekend on the problem.

That represented an increase in support for the shuttle program over the last two years.

We must first wind up the shuttle program without delay.

The death of the stupid shuttle program will help make this more likely.

Industry officials have said they could run the shuttle program for less money than the Government and still maintain safety.

The plant plays a critical role in the space shuttle program.

The walls are practically a history of the shuttle program.

Fewer than a fifth said the shuttle program should be cut back.

The news agency did not specify what role he had in the space shuttle program.

The move coincided with the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.

Q. Why are you highly critical of the space shuttle program?

This was the fourth night landing of the shuttle program.

The troubled space shuttle program is in even more trouble than we realized.

No mission of this type was launched during the space shuttle program.

With the end of the Shuttle program in 2011, the railroad's future is uncertain.

Following the loss of Columbia, the space shuttle program was suspended.

He took over only two years after the start of the Space Shuttle program.

If the recommendations are adopted, it will be the beginning of the end for the shuttle program.

But other experts, including some with long experience in the shuttle program, expressed strong doubts.