[DOC] [TLE] Space Shuttle Columbia - Wikipedia [PAR] Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space 
Shuttle fleet. ... Columbia was named after the historical poetic name for the 
United States of ... STS-93, launched on July 23, 1999, was the first U.S. space 
mission with a ..... After the rescue, the shuttle crash-lands after losing heat-
resistant tiles. [DOC] [TLE] Space Shuttle program - Wikipedia [PAR] The Space Shuttle program, officially called the Space Transportation System (
STS), was the ... The Shuttle is the only winged manned spacecraft to have 
achieved orbit and ... The Space Shuttle program finished with its last mission, 
STS-135 flown by ... The first orbiter was originally planned to be named 
Constitution, but a... [DOC] [TLE] Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia [PAR] The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when 
Columbia ... Mission STS-107 was the 113th Space Shuttle launch. .... performed 
after an anomaly has been observed, and this has been done at least once after 
the ... 2:30 a.m. EST, February 1, 2003: The Entry Flight Control Team began duty 
in the... [DOC] [TLE] NASA's Space Shuttle By the Numbers: 30 Years of a Spaceflight Icon [PAR] Jul 21, 2011 ... NASA's space shuttles have racked up an amazing set of ... The final shuttle flight
, NASA's STS-135 mission aboard Atlantis, will land Thursday (July ... Challenger 
and Columbia were lost during spaceflight tragedies. ... 2: The final number of 
female space shuttle commanders after 30 years of shuttle flight. [DOC] [TLE] New Horizons: NASA's Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper ... - Space.com [PAR] Feb 25, 2016 ... Spacecraft typically have a set design lifetime, similar to warranties on electronics 
or cars. ... This makes long missions such as New Horizons especially ... same 
time pointed to the planet's atmosphere being lost to space after the solar ... is 
created when sunlight breaks up methane in Pluto's atmosphere. [DOC] [TLE] Space Shuttle Columbia: A New Beginning and Vision ... [PAR] Feb 1, 2011 ... The Early Years of Space Shuttle Columbia: 1981-1994: ... This 610-day stay in 
the OPF is the longest any Shuttle orbiter has .... In all, 95 percent of STS-2's 
mission objectives were accomplished and ... This marked the first time that the 
Space Shuttle launched on its originally intended launch date and the... [DOC] [TLE] Origins of NASA Names - NASA History Homepage [PAR] Early advanced studies grew into the Space Shuttle program. ... implied mobility 
on the moon and this vehicle did not have that capability. ... altered when the 
three astronauts scheduled for the first manned flight lost their lives in a flash ... 
given "Apollo" flight numbers and no missions were named "Apollo 2" and "
Apollo 3. [DOC] [TLE] The Pioneer Missions | NASA [PAR] NASA engineers report that Pioneer 10's radioisotope power source has ... 
Launched on 2 March 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through 
the .... Originally designed to operate in space for at least 6 months, the Pioneers 
... During the passage by Jupiter, Pioneer 10 obtained the first close-up images of 
the... [DOC] [TLE] 10 Space Shuttles which never flew | Astronotes - Armagh Planetarium [PAR] May 12, 2011 ... NASA's Space Shuttles have become a familar sight in their thirty years of ... 
Obviously, soon Earth orbit would fill up with space stations staffed by scores ... 
The booster would return to land on a runway while the other ... for launch 
vehicles (at least among the non-communist nations) and that ..... First Name. [DOC] [TLE] Space Missions and Space Craft - The Nine Planets [PAR] A description of past space missions & craft of interest to planetary science. ... 
Mariner 2: the first successful probe to flyby Venus in December of 1962, and it ... 
This would seem to indicate that Mercury has an iron core which makes up 75 ... (
USSR) This was the first spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet. [DOC] [TLE] Missions to Mars | The Planetary Society [PAR] More missions have been

Question: To date, this Space Shuttle named for a lost land has gone up on the fewest missions--2
Answer: Atlantis