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The Challenger takes flight!
A space shuttle challenger is launched. -
A woman astronaut?
Sally Ride was the first american astronaut on the flight of the sts-7 flight challenger. -
Everyone can go to space!
The STS-8 Challenger flight introduces Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut to travel in space. -
No limits to the space shuttle dicovery
First flight of space shuttle Discovery. -
Atlantis in the air!
First flight of space shuttle Atlantis. -
Classified infomation
Atlantis deploys a classified satellite for the Department of Defense. -
Boom!
Challenger explodes 73 seconds into the flight. -
Finally
The first shuttle flight after the Challenger disaster. Discovery launches a satellite. -
Galileo!
Atlantis launches the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft.
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Telescope in space?
Discovery mission launches the Hubble Space Telescope. -
Epic moon walk!
Endeavour’s maiden flight and the first 3-person spacewalk. -
Sergei krikalev
Sergei Krikalev becomes the first Russian cosmonaut on a U.S. shuttle mission. -
Women pilot
Eileen Collins becomes the first woman pilot, flying Discovery past the Russian space station Mir. -
RUSSIANS!
Space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station. -
So close, Not always perfect!
Fifteen minutes before completing its 28th mission, Columbia breaks up with the loss of all seven crew members.
