CUTAWAY: As shuttle programme fades away, what comes next for manned spaceflight? By Gayle Putrich 2010-11-22T13:00:00+00:00. As the Space Shuttle programme slowly winds to a close in 2011, ...

Space Shuttle cutaway showing astronauts working with ESA Spacelab, 1980. Image: NASA. Less than a year after its birth, NASA announced its first astronaut class, the Mercury Seven, on April 9, 1959.

Cutaway illustration of the space shuttle (Image: NASA) 4 / 12. STS-1 Orbiter Columbia on the launch pad at KSC in December 1980 (Image: NASA) 5 / 12.

A short, interactive slide is one of several attractions and exhibits, highlighted by the full-stack Space Shuttle Endeavour, ...

Space Lab. This Space Shuttle cutaway shows six astronauts working with ESA Spacelab in Earth orbit. Image: NASA. A Hawk Inside. The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is an unmanned aerial vehicle ...

How to watch "The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth" online on BBC iPlayer in the UK and from anywhere. New documentary goes inside the Columbia disaster.