For 30 years, NASA’s Space Shuttle program carried astronauts, deployed satellites, repaired the Hubble Space Telescope, and helped assemble the International Space Station. Reusable and complex, it reshaped human access to low Earth orbit and defined a generation of spaceflight. #SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceHistory #Orbit | SpaceEve

🚀✨ How Astronauts Travel with the Space Shuttle ✨🚀 Astronauts blast off on the space shuttle with huge boosters and a giant fuel tank. In just minutes, they’re racing around Earth at 28,000 km/h! 🛰️ The shuttle carefully lines up with the International Space Station (ISS), docks, and astronauts float inside. There, they deliver supplies, do experiments, and sometimes even take spacewalks. 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀 When the mission is done, the shuttle undocks, slows down with a deorbit burn, and dives back

The NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 40 years ago, on January 28, 1986, just 73 seconds after liftoff. The disaster claimed the lives of all seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire who would have been the first civilian in space. “The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives,” President Regan said in an address to the nation that night. “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them,

On January 28th, 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and broke apart on take off. This week, Destruction Decoded explores the top 10 most dramatic space accidents, from Baikonur to Cape Canaveral. Watch Destruction Decoded on Wednesdays at 8pm, on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic UK