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PHOTO GALLERY

Space Shuttle Program

In honor and recognition of America's devastating loss of shuttles' Challenger in January 1986 and Columbia in February 2003 and their courageous crews, here is a small collection of some of the finest images of space shuttle program operations ever taken by NASA. Truly the "Best of the Best" and very memorable. For a CCAS tribute to the Challenger and Columbia, see High Flight.

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Enterprise 8-12-1977 First Free-Flight Test	Enterprise 8-12-1977 First Free-Flight Test	Enterprise 8-12-1977 First Free-Flight Test	Columbia 3-1-2001 Ferrying Flight

STS-107 Columbia	STS-107 Columbia	STS-107 Columbia	STS-107 Columbia

STS-98 Atlantis in Vehicle Assembly Building		Shuttle Crawler Transporter

Discovery	Atlantis	STS-75 Atlantis	STS-1 Columbia

STS-97 Endeavour	STS-96 Discovery	STS-91 Discovery	STS-113 Endeavour

STS-67 Endeavour		STS-98 Atlantis and Vehicle Assembly Bldg

STS-57 Endeavour	STS-109 Columbia	Shuttle Unknown	STS-112 Atlantis

STS-106 Atlantis	STS-101 Atlantis	STS-109 Columbia	STS-113 Endeavour

STS-112 Atlantis		Solitude of low Earth orbit

STS-113 Endeavour touch-down

STS-94 Columbia safe at home

For other wonderful NASA space mission photos, see GRIN

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