The NASA Space Shuttle Program

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    The Space Shuttle Program

    This was a project by NASA sending over 100 space shuttles into space.
  • Challenger

    A failed mision. This space shuttle blew up on the way up to the atmosphere, 7 passengers died. The Challenger's mission was to deploy the second Tracking and Data Relay Satellite and the Spartan Halley's Comet observer.
  • Atlantis

    This mission lasted 6 days 22 hours and 50 minutes
    The crew was Mario Runco, James S. Voss, F. Story Musgrave and Thomas J. Hennen. it was a department of defense mission.
  • STS-97

    the mishen lasted 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes and it went 4.5 million miles. This mission's purpose was to make sure the international space station spread it's wings
  • STS-162

    it lasted 15 days, 20 hours, 29 minutes, 37 secs
    the people abord wher, Christopher J, Eric A. Boe, H. Magnus, Stephen G. Bowen, Donald R. Pettit, and Robert S. performed some preventative maintenance on the port-side arrays.
  • STS-134

    This mission lasted 16 days
    The crew was mark kelly, gregory h. johnson, michael fincke george chamitoff, andrew feustel, and roberto bittori. its final flight delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2