Space Shuttle Endeavour Sails To Home Port For Final Time “Space shuttle Endeavour and its six-astronaut crew sailed home for the final time, ending a 16-day journey of more than […]
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Lights In The Sky
Early Morning Skywatching and Teaching Satellite Concepts to Sherpas “I got up early today to see the ISS and Endeavour fly over my house. Its always cool to see them […]
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Shuttle Missions That Might Have Happened
12 Space Shuttle Missions That Weren’t, IEEE Spectrum “The U.S. space shuttle fleet is set for retirement following the launch of Atlantis, scheduled for mid-July. In all, the fleet will […]
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STS-134 Wakeup Song Winners
NASA Announces STS-134 Wakeup Song Winners; Face In Space Totals (with video) “NASA announced the winners of its “Original Song Contest” after six weeks of public voting. The songs will […]
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The Exclusive Concert NASA Won't Tell You About (Update)
NASA HQ Solicitation: Space Shuttle 30th Anniversary: The Space Philarmonic (sp) “NASA/HQ has a requirement for an ensemble by The Space Philharmonic group to perform a symphonic concert in honor […]
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Endeavour: Elegance and Poise
Photos: Endeavour’s On Orbit Ballet “These views of space shuttle Endeavour was provided by an Expedition 27 crew member during a survey of the approaching STS-134 vehicle prior to docking […]
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Photos: Mating Atlantis One Last Time
Photos: Space Shuttle Atlantis Being Prepared for Mating Preparations were made today to begin mating Space Shuttle Atlantis with its External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters.
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Preparing Atlantis One Last Time
Photos: KSC Workers Gather To Wish Atlantis Well “As Atlantis entered the VAB workers posed behind it with the banner “We’re Behind You, Atlantis” and then a few of them […]
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One Last Rollover
Atlantis Leaves Orbiter Processing Facility #1 (with photos), SpaceRef “The day after Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from the Kennedy Space Center the last orbiter to ever fly, Atlantis, was moved […]
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Farewell, my space shuttle
Farewell, my space shuttle, Leroy Chiao, CNN “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But hard as they tried, nobody else ever got it right. The development of the Soviet […]