First Flight:
-Yuri Gagarin  [WIKI]
-Free YouTube Movie – First Orbit – from archival audio with new footage from the ISS
-First human into space & first to orbit the Earth
-Height : 5’2”
-Path of Orbit PIC
-American Alan Shepard went up <month later
-Died <7 years after that flight in a training exercises accident, didn’t see man land on the Moon

The Shuttle Program:
-First flight of the Space Shuttle April 12, 1981
-Two man crew that lasted ~ 2 days
-Only 1 of two flights to have the White [painted] External Tank … not paining them provided a weight savings of approximately 272 kilograms (600 lb)

Shuttle Program Highlights:
Hubble Space Telescope- Launch & 4 servicing missions
-ISS / MIR :
–Started construction in 1998
–JAVA Applet to track the ISS

Shuttle Program Artifacts to Educational Institutes:
* Non-profit Museums, Universities, and Schools
-Welcome to NASA Space Programs – Historic Artifacts Prescreening
–Space Shuttle Tiles for Teachers

Future homes / Shuttle ‘Retirement Homes’:
–Artist Redition of the 4 Exibits
-Discovery – Virginia – Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum [Replacing the Enterprise exhibit]
-Atlantis – Florida – Kennedy Space Center
-Endeavour – Los Angeles, CA – California Science Center
-Enterprise [prototype] – New York, NY –  Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

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Additional Info:
-Columbia @NASA.gov @Wikipedia
-Challenger @NASA.gov @Wikipedia
-Discovery @NASA.gov @Wikipedia
-Atlantis @NASA.gov @Wikipedia
-Endeavour @NASA.gov @Wikipedia

NASA.gov
–Interactive Flash on The Shuttle from NASA
–Shuttle Mate-Demate Device

Space.com
–NASA Chief’s Big Decision: Where Should the Space Shuttles Retire?
–The Most Memorable Space Shuttle Missions