SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

The shuttle main ... with the Russian space station Mir (1995-98) and the International Space Station (starting with STS-88, December 1998). Beginning in 1995, crew seats were made with aluminum ...

Heat shields, abort systems, parachutes, seats, controls ... atop a rocket might not be as glorious a sight as a space shuttle launch, the resumption of blastoffs from the cape will generate ...

flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis. On that mission, Atlantis rolled herself onto a launch azimuth (compass heading) for a 57° inclination orbit – the highest inclination permitted from the ...