50 years ago, NASA’s space shuttle program got the green light
Excerpt from the January 15, 1972 issue of Science News
On July 8, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis rocketed to the International Space Station on the final mission of NASA’s space shuttle program. The U.S. space agency is now working with private companies to get astronauts into outer space.
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The decision on the shuttle is ‘go’ — Science News, January 15, 1972
President Nixon’s announcement last week of the decision to begin development of a space shuttle system may prove to be nearly as crucial to the future of the manned space program as the 1961 Kennedy challenge to land a man on the moon.