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Shuttle Astronaut Has Anchorage-Area Kids Flying High
Channel 2 NewsA Space Shuttle astronaut made an inspiring connection with about 100 Anchorage-area schoolchildren Tuesday. Dr. John Grunsfeld, who in 2009 headed the team of spacewalking astronauts who saved the Hubble Space Telescope, had a new mission during this...Tags: Washington, DC, Space Programs, Technology, Science and Technology
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Ex-Astronaut Oefelein Was Pilot in September Plane Crash
The Associated PressFederal officials confirm former space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein was the pilot of a small plane that lost power and crashed last month in rural Alaska. National Transportation Safety Board Alaska regional chief Jim La Belle says an engine check was...Tags: Lisa Nowak, Space Programs, Technology, Injuries and Wounds, Prosecution
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Partnership for cruise line The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), founded nearly 200 years ago to advance geographical science, is to...Tags: Regent Seven Seas Cruises, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, NBCUniversal, World Wildlife Fund, Tony Awards
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Official: Shuttle-hauling Tundra finds permanent home in science exhibit
Autoblog.comFiled under: Truck, Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Toyota The idea of lifting a full-size pickup truck completely off the ground by hand might seem as likely as, say, said pickup truck towing a 150,000-pound space shuttle, but... hurray, physics! The same... -
Giving Science Center parking to USC could hurt museum, some say
A proposal to guarantee USC most of the parking spaces in a state-owned garage during Trojan football games and other events could hurt the neighboring California Science Center by driving down attendance, some supporters of the Exposition Park museum...
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Space plane arrives at NASA facility for flight testing
A white-and-black space plane, very much resembling the now-retired space shuttle, was trucked to a NASA flight center in the Mojave Desert to begin a round of testing to see if it has the right stuff to carry astronauts one day. Tucked under a white...
Tags: Space Programs, Boeing Co., Technology, SpaceX, NASA
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SpaceX signs lease agreement at spaceport to test reusable rocket
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.SpaceX, the Hawthorne rocket maker, has found a new home for flight testing on its reusable rocket. The company has signed a three-year agreement to lease land and facilities at Spaceport America, the state-owned commercial launch site located 55...Tags: Space Programs, Technology, SpaceX, Richard Branson, NASA
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Retired astronaut encourages Western Heights students to follow dreams
julieg@herald-mail.comRetired NASA astronaut Don Thomas encouraged Western Heights Middle School eighth-graders to follow their dreams and to persevere, as he did. “If you forget everything else I told you here today, the one thing I want you to remember is to never...Tags: Colleges and Universities, NASA, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Willard Hackerman
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Central Florida theme parks roll out new attractions for 2013
Special CorrespondentThe number “13” is considered unlucky by some, but certainly not for travelers heading for Central Florida in summer of 2013, as this year holds unprecedented expansions at theme parks, accommodations and dining in Orlando and surroundings....Tags: Trips and Vacations, Entertainment, Tourism and Leisure, Personal Service, Antarctica
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Naval Academy astronauts return to inspire next generation
The course is Human Space Flight. The subject for today: analogues — the scenarios found in the world or contrived in the laboratory that NASA uses to simulate work and life aboard a space ship. Naval Academy professor Ken Reightler leads the...
Tags: Annapolis, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Vice (movie), Barack Obama, Robert Heinlein
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Kennedy Space Center: Progress on Atlantis exhibit, inside and out
Kennedy Space Center Vistor Complex guests can now see parts of the entrance to the upcoming Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction peeking over construction walls. Work continues inside and out on the $100 million structure, set for its grand opening on...
Tags: Space Programs, Amusement and Theme Parks, Technology, Labor Legislation, Kennedy Space Center
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Shuttle rocket test
FrameworkNov. 17, 1981: The main engine in the space shuttle program undergoes a test firing at the Santa Susana Mountains field laboratory site of Rockwell International....
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