Today, the Space Shuttle Independence is on permanent display at the Space Center Houston in Houston, Texas. But if you go to Florida’s Space Coast now, you won’t find this high-fidelity shuttle replica there anymore. From its installation in 1993 to its relocation in 2011, Independence was a great attraction at Kennedy Space Center. The History of the Space Shuttle IndependenceĪfter the space shuttle Enterprise went on display in the mid-1980s, Independence was the second shuttle that the public was ever able to visit. On July 8, 2011, Atlantis made the last shuttle launch and the Space Shuttle program ended. Unfortunately, following the Columbia and Challenger accidents in 19, the shuttle program became increasingly cost ineffective and was eventually retired. Shuttles helped NASA deliver payloads to space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, and build Skylab and the International Space Station. Over the course of 30 years, the shuttles completed 135 missions. Related: A Definitive History of Space Tourism & Human SpaceflightĮventually, there were six shuttles which frew: Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour, and Enterprise.
It was the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic spaceflight. Instead, Columbia was the first to fly to space in 1981 from Kennedy Space Center. Enterprise was the first space shuttle built, but it never flew to space. As the Apollo program put men on the moon at exorbitant cost, NASA wanted to create a reusable, lower cost way to send people and cargo to space on a regular basis. The Space Shuttle program was initially conceived in the late 1960s.
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