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Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Flight [PHOTOS]

Apr 25th 2011 – 11:18AM

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...

Debate: Manned Spaceflight Wastes Time and Money

Apr 15th 2010 – 5:11AM

(April 15) -- Editor's note: Should we even be in the business of manned spaceflight? Here's a sampling of viewpoints collected from the Web by people who say we'd be better off staying put on Earth. It Crowds Out Real Science The manned spaceflight program often masquerades as science, but it crowds out real NASA...

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ENGADGET

FAA grants Virgin Galactic permit for powered tests, becomes Sir Richard's BFF

By Anthony Verrecchio May 31st 2012 - 07:20PM

Virgin Galactic is one step closer to relieving WhiteKnightTwo of its babysitting gig.

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Shuttles Out To Pasture, Space Agency Eyes Orbital 'Taxis'

By Melissa Cronin Apr 24th 2012 - 12:37PM

With NASA's oldest and most-flown space shuttle now delivered to its museum retirement home, the commercial future of American human spaceflight is taking center stage.

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Ushering in the Final Frontier -- Manned Spaceflight

By Ayodele Faiyetole Mar 19th 2012 - 02:12PM

Those were the first words from the "Columbus of the Cosmos" Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin, to a woman and a girl near where his capsule landed on April 12, 1961.

GADLING

The Final Shuttle Launch and the Future of the Space Coast

By Paul Brady Jul 27th 2011 - 08:21AM

As we know now, the shuttle did take off as scheduled , making its final graceful, powerful arc into the low clouds, punching through the smallest break in the weather on the way to the International Space Station.

TECHCRUNCH

NASA Will Start Flying Coach With “Commercial Crews”

By John Biggs Apr 19th 2011 - 02:16PM

After the coming retirement of the Shuttle program, NASA will begin flying along with multiple "commercial crews" including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin group and Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Background on manned spaceflight

Human spaceflight (or manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is space travel with humans on the spacecraft.

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