This is a slide from a NASA presentation showing how a shuttle rescue mission would work. Credit: NASA This event never really happened, thankfully. Another view of the same meetup, Discovery (right) and Endeavour paused for a unique nose-to-nose photo opportunity before going their separate ways outside Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at the Kennedy Space Center on August 11, 2011. space shuttle orbiter Challenger, shortly after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 28, 1986, which claimed the lives of seven astronauts. The two NASA shuttles shorn of spaceflight maneuvering capability swapped locations to continue the transition to retirement and public display at museum in Virginia and California respectively. Challenger disaster, explosion of the U.S. Credit: NASA Space Shuttles Discovery and Endeavour meet for a nose-to-nose encounter of gaping holes at the Kennedy Space Center on Aug. space shuttle, also called Space Transportation System. Endeavour will stood by in case a rescue mission was necessary during Atlantis' mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Additional NASA astronauts are scheduled to return to the Moon by 2025 as part of the Artemis. This was the final time two shuttles were on launch pads at the same time. Space shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A (left) is accompanied by space shuttle Endeavour on Pad 39B in 2009. In the 30-year duration of the space shuttle program, having two shuttles on the launchpads at once happened just 17 times. Then it was Columbia for STS-61-C and Challenger for the ill-fated STS-51-L. The first time two space shuttles were ever on the launchpads at the same time was in 1985. STS-35’s Columbia is on Pad A (foreground), while its sister spaceship, Discovery, is beginning preparations for STS-41. This view shows two space shuttles on adjacent Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 pads with the Rotating Service Structures retracted I 1990. Discovery is now at the Air & Space Museum, while Enterprise headed to New York City’s Intrepid Museum. ![]() This event took place today at the National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in April, 2012 as space shuttle Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, met up with its prototype sister, Enterprise as they switch spots. Udvar-Hazy Center, Thursday, April 19, 2012. Here’s a look at some other instances when two space shuttles were in close enough proximity to have their pictures taken together: Space Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian's Steven F. A new book of rare and unpublished photos offers a unique look at the early development of NASAs shuttle, the worlds first reusable spacecraft.
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