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Walking below the shuttle Atlantis on display, the orbiter's protective heat shield tiles are visible, dinged and scratched from traveling through Earth's atmosphere. A slide in the Space Shuttle ...

Grimy with space dust, scratched, its tiles scorched by the heat of re-entry, the retired space shuttle Atlantis is surprisingly majestic after 33 missions into space. And that’s how you can see it in ...

Shuttles called magnificent, but delicate and risky. — -- Ever since the Challenger disaster in 1986, NASA has said that its space shuttles were magnificent machines, but conceded they were ...