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  The Beginning: Enterprise - "To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before"

  Posted by Wayne LaBar 9:38 PM on Jul 03, 2011

  The Beginning of the EndThis week marks the final Space Shuttle mission, STS-135. For someone like myself, while I can remember 1969 and the first of the Apollo Moon landings, the ... Read More >>

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  Discovery Spacewalkers Overcome Suit Leak Before Getting Underway

  Posted by Mark Carreau 3:56 PM on Mar 02, 2011

  A shadowy Steve Bowen, left, and Al Drew, top, emerge from the International Space Station'sU. S. airlock to begin their second spacewalk this week.      P... Read More >>

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  Countdown Begins for Shuttle Discovery's Last Flight

  Posted by Irene Klotz 7:10 PM on Oct 31, 2010

  Following a two-day delay to repair shuttle Discovery Orbital Maneuvering System leaks, NASA picked up the start of the STS-133 countdown on Oct. 31, aiming for liftoff at 3:52 p.m... Read More >>

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  Shuttle Launch Slips To Wednesday

  Posted by Irene Klotz 2:22 PM on Oct 30, 2010

  Repairs to shuttle Discovery's right-side Orbital Maneuvering System helium system will delay the start of the STS-133 countdown to Sunday, with liftoff retargeted for 3:52 p.m. ED... Read More >>

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  First 100 Days For Space

  Posted by Jeffrey Manber 2:45 PM on Apr 27, 2009

  In the absence of a new administrator I hestiate to join in with the cacophony of pundits in other fields on the status of Obama’s first one hundred days in office.  But... Read More >>

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  Countdown to Contemplation

  Posted by Jeffrey Manber 1:35 PM on Mar 16, 2009

  T-minus-nine shuttle launches and counting. It seems that last evening’s flawless launch of STS-119 kicked off the general media’s awareness that the space shuttle prog... Read More >>

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  Washington Post Labels NASA as "Loser"

  Posted by Jeffrey Manber 6:20 PM on Feb 27, 2009

  The Washington spin is that NASA is a loser in the just released budget just released by the Obama administration. The Washington Post’s Federal Eye divided the $3.5 trillion... Read More >>

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  Homes Wanted for NASA's Shuttles

  Posted by Graham Warwick 10:31 PM on Dec 17, 2008

  Want a Space Shuttle Orbiter in your driveway, or a Space Shuttle Main Engine as a garden ornament? Better still, do you want to put either or both on public display in y... Read More >>

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  Coming Home

  Posted by Guy Norris 6:27 PM on Dec 10, 2008

   (NASA photo/Tom Tschida) The Space Shuttle Endeavour is en-route back to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on top of the NASA Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, having left Edw... Read More >>

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  Getting ready to return

  Posted by Guy Norris 5:57 PM on Dec 06, 2008

  NASA engineers are working around the clock to prepare the Space Shuttle Endeavour for its ferry flight to Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, still targeted at this point for tom... Read More >>

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