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Colonel Eileen Collins was speaking at a Medical Council event in Dublin.
Take a look at the Buran.
Speakers at the One Young World Dublin 2014 summit will include Kofi Annan, Dame Ellen MacArthur and creator of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales.
Seven people died in the 1986 tragedy.
It’s planned the Dream Chaser will be used to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. A trial version of the craft successfully ran through tests yesterday – assisted by an odd-looking helicopter.
It’s good to be curious about a world outside our own, because being inquisitive in the past has gotten us where we are today, writes Conor Farrell.
Endeavour’s two-miles-per-hour journey to the California Space Centre will mean all four shuttles have been rehoused.
The space shuttle Enterprise heads for its new home aboard the former aircraft carrier Intrepid.
All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the few bits and pieces you might not have seen.
As the retired shuttle prepares to make its last journey – by plane – to a museum in Washington, we look back over its 27-year career.
The space shuttle Endeavour flew its last mission in May 2011. Here’s what it looks like on the inside.
The mission was delayed for two months after a similar rocket exploded shortly after take-off in August.
The congresswoman who was near-fatally shot in January is married to Mark Kelly, the commander of the last mission of space shuttle Endeavour in May.
Live footage from NASA TV as a solar-powered spacecraft begins its five-year exploratory journey to Jupiter.
The flight by Atlantis is the last for the 30-year shuttle programme
In today’s Fix: broken election promises, long-lost paintings, the last day of Oxegen and a final hidden message from staff at the News of the World…
The last ever shuttle mission arrives at the space station today. Watch the historic event live.
An Irish science blog has uncovered the many links between the final space shuttle mission and our fair isle.
Hundreds of thousands have packed Florida for Atlantis’ final mission, but there are fears it could be delayed by bad weather.
The photographs, taken by an astronaut on his way home to Earth, are the first ever close-ups of a shuttle at the International Space Station.
The crew of the last flight of the American manned space programme have arrived in Florida to make final prepartions for their 8 July launch.
Endeavour’s final mission ends safely – just as Atlantis is rolled out to a launch pad ahead of the last ever Shuttle mission.
The NASA shuttle is set to undock from the International Space Station later tonight and begin the long journey back to Earth.
Astronaut Mark Kelly says an operation on his wife’s skull has gone successfully – from the International Space Station.
The shuttle’s six-person crew is delivering a €1.4bn particle physics detector to the ISS and will carry out four spacewalks during their mission.
Our daily wrap-up of what’s been going on – including a tongue-in-cheek tour of a certain house in Abbottabad…
After last month’s launch was delayed due to technical issues, Endeavour has finally taken off and is heading to the International Space Station.
The launch of Endeavour’s final mission, originally set for last Friday, won’t take place at least until next Tuesday.
The final mission by Endeavour and its crew will begin this evening at 19.47 Irish time, and among those attending will be Barack Obama.