With the political turning point the costly project lost its support. In 1993, the Russians in the

Three years ago, on July 8, 2011 started with the Atlantis, the last space shuttle on a mission. After more than 30 years and 135 flights had concluded with the reusable space shuttles. We look back at some strange moments. From WEB.DE editor Christian Flier
In September european space agency 2006, Atlantis launched on its 27th mission. Ten days later to land the space shuttle in Houston, Texas, but nothing european space agency came of it. "Mysterious objects" that were on the same orbit around the earth as the Atlantis, prevented the return. european space agency
On a surveillance camera for the load area Nasa employees had discovered unknown objects in a suspicious european space agency size. Only one day later, the space shuttle came back to Earth. In the UFOs, it was apparently to objects that had come loose from the Atlantis itself. Vulcan Spock welcomes the first space shuttle
The first space shuttle was originally, hot as a reminder of the U.S. Constitution, Constitution. In contrast, in the 1970 "Star european space agency Trek" fans ran storm and urged NASA to call the craft enterprise. In the first presentation in September 1976, many were "Star european space agency Trek" stars like Leonard Nimoy (Spock), James Doohan (Scotty) and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) here.
When the Enterprise came as an exhibit to New York in April 2012, was Leonard european space agency Nimoy (Spock) the space shuttle back to the page. "This european space agency is a reunion for me," the actor said. "35 years ago I saw the Enterprise european space agency for the first time."
In October 2012, the residents of Los Angeles were amazed: The Space Shuttle Endeavour rolled nearly 20 kilometers from the airport to the California Space Center across town. 400 trees had been felled in advance. To get the 20-meter high and 26 meter wide XXXAllfahrzeug on the roads, power lines also had to be lifted by giant cranes.
For the safe transport waited approximately european space agency 77 ton Endeavourstundenlang before a tow truck could not pull over a bridge. For the action of the traffic was temporarily interrupted. The Russians also had a space shuttle
Shortly before the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Soviets built their version of a space shuttle. The Buran (to German: Snow storm) took off for an unmanned orbital flight on 15 November european space agency 1988. That was the only mission of the Allgefährts. And, although the Russians had put a lot of energy in the production of the competitor to the space shuttle. At times, european space agency to have been involved in the production of up to 30,000 workers.
With the political turning point the costly project lost its support. In 1993, the Russians in the program. The later attempt to market the Buran commercially failed. In the West, the secret project for a long time was just a rumor. Which states that "mirror" european space agency but in September 2004 appeared a vehicle of the Soviet Allprogramms the Persian Gulf. A Boeing transports the Space Shuttle
Actually, the space shuttle models were for there to transport large loads into space. But every now and then the space shuttles were even to the general cargo. In August 2005, the Discovery had to land due to bad weather in California unplanned at the Edwards Air Force Base. Only days later, she brought a Boeing for the actual endpoint of the Mission to Cape Canaveral, Florida. But that was not the only event in which a space shuttle mitflog on one machine. So promoted as a Boeing 747, the Enterprise in early 2012 piggyback to New York.
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