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NASA Delays Space Shuttle Endeavour's Last Launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit, disappointing huge crowds converging on the area for the afternoon liftoff. President Barack Obama and his family were planning to watch Endeavour blast off. It...

NASA Braces for Giffords, Obama, Huge Launch Crowd

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left hospitals behind Wednesday for the first time since her tragic shooting nearly four months ago and traveled to NASA territory for the next-to-last space shuttle launch with her husband in command. "Gabby is looking forward to some time away from the rehab center & the...

Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Flight [PHOTOS]

The final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, marks the next-to-last flight of the Space Shuttle program. Commander Mark Kelly's wife, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was critically wounded in a January shooting. Kelly resumed training in February for the flight and is hopeful Giffords will be able to...

NASA Solar Sail Is the 'Little Satellite That Could'

If you gaze up at the night sky on April 26 or 27, you might catch a glimpse of a promising new technology, a cult favorite of astrogeeks and something of a taxpayer treat in one shiny package -- NASA's NanoSail-D2 cruising past Earth using the power of the sun. The 100-square-foot polymer solar sail unfurled in low Earth...

Tragic Romance Eclipses 2nd-to-Last Space Shuttle Flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Looking back on the horror of that Saturday in January, this seems miraculous today: that Mark Kelly would indeed command the next-to-last space shuttle flight and that his wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, would be here in Florida watching. Yet that is what is expected to happen...

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02/10/12 So you want to be an astronaut? Source: Bradenton Herald - Bradenton FL Wolfe minted that wondrous phrase in the late 1970s, around the time NASA was deluged with a record number of astronaut applicants.
02/10/12 Rep. Schiff denounces potential 'devasting' cuts to... Source: Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena CA Scientists and elected officials are bracing for NASA's 2013 budget announcement Monday, which they say could contain "devastating" cuts for the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge.
02/10/12 Hands-on science work by HHS students leads to White... Source: The Herald-Dispatch - Huntington WV It can be daunting to work on a school project in which you can't look in a textbook to find an answer, said Huntington High School junior Ben Jones.
02/09/12 Been there, done that Source: Denver Post eLetters Moon base is not a loony idea ," Feb. 8 guest commentary.
02/09/12 LAUSD's 'Beyond The Bell' adopts NASA curriculum Source: Aerotech News & Review More than 200 elementary and middle school students participated in the recent kickoff of an educational partnership between NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and the Los Angeles Unified School District to introduce NASA education materials into the district's Beyond the Bell after-school program.