Gabrielle Giffords’s husband Mark Kelly will command final shuttle flight, Politico “Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will fly the space shuttle Endeavour’s final mission in April, according […]
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New USA Layoffs
Usa Informs Employees Of Layoff, Florida Today “United Space Alliance by Friday will notify 548 Kennedy Space Center employees that they will be laid off on April 8. Some 697 […]
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Wishful Thinking About Shuttle Extension
NASA weighs plan to keep space shuttle until 2017, MSNBC “NASA is considering a plan to keep the space shuttle Endeavour in flight-like condition after its last scheduled mission, a […]
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Lunar Craters (Provisionally) Named for Columbia Astronauts
Names for seven craters in the Apollo basin on the Moon have been provisionally approved by the International Astronomical Union to honor the seven Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts. The names […]
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STS-134 Commander Decision In Mid-Feb
Giffords husband to decide on space trip in mid-Feb, Reuters “The astronaut husband of a U.S. congresswoman seriously wounded when she was shot in head will decide by mid-February whether […]
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25th Anniversary For Challenger Center
Information about Challenger Center’s 25th anniversary including today’s live TV and webcast events can be found at challenger.org/25. At 9 a.m. EST, watch the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s commemoration of the […]
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Shuttle Launch Preps – No Money? No Problem.
NASA gives go-ahead for additional shuttle flight, AP “NASA doesn’t know yet where it will get the money, but on Thursday the space agency officially added another space shuttle launch […]
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Video: Dr. June Scobee Rodgers talking to Students on 25th Anniversary of Challenger
Dr. June Scobee Rodgers, co-founder of Challenger Center for Space Science Education, talking to Students on 25th Anniversary of Challenger.
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Steve Bowen Replaces Tim Kopra on STS-133
Astronaut Steve Bowen Named to STS-133 Shuttle Crew “NASA selected astronaut Steve Bowen as a mission specialist on STS-133, the next space shuttle mission planned for launch on Feb. 24. […]
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STS-133 Crew Member Injured
Shuttle Discovery’s lead spacewalker hurt in accident, Spaceflight Now “Space station veteran Timothy Kopra, scheduled for launch Feb. 24 aboard the shuttle Discovery, was injured in a bicycle accident Saturday, […]