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• Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Shuttle astronauts mark 30th anniversary of first Atlantis flight

  Jason RhianOctober 4th, 2015

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — It was a day three decades in the making: the 30th anniversary of the first flight of Shuttle Atlantis. Delaware North, the operators of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex hosted a series of events to honor the orbiter’s powerful legacy. The event was held on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015.

• Our Spaceflight Heritage: International Incident averted – interplanetary success achieved – the flight of STS-34

  Heather SmithOctober 18th, 2014

  On Oct. 18, 1989, a group of astronauts launched aboard space shuttle Atlantis from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle carried some very special cargo, Galileo, an unmanned spacecraft heading for the Jupiter. It was the first planetary orbiter to carry out an extended observation of the Jovian system and it was charged with collecting a sampling […]