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Weather woes delay space shuttle Endeavor’s transfer
Bad weather is delaying the transfer of the shuttle Endeavor from Florida to California where it will be put on show, the US space agency said. Endeavor, which completed its final mission last year, was scheduled to leave the Kennedy Space Center on the back of a modified Boeing 747…
Space Shuttle Discovery takes its final flight
The Space Shuttle Discovery made its final flight Tuesday morning aboard a modified Boeing 747 to Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C., traveling to its future home at The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The flight began at 7 a.m. at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and…
Boeing brings space taxi jobs to Florida
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Boeing Co will bring hundreds of jobs to Florida by basing a program to develop passenger spaceships at the Kennedy Space Center, first for NASAand later for commercial use, officials said on Monday. Boeing’s plans will ease some of the pain over thousands of job losses in the so-called Space…
Neil Armstrong says U.S. space program ‘embarrassing’
WASHINGTON — Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an “embarrassing” state. “We will have no American access to, and return from, low Earth orbit and the International…
Cocaine is found at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
A packet of white powder that was found at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle launches, has tested positive for cocaine, according to NASA’s Inspector General’s office. The packet contained “4.2 grams of a white powdery substance” and was “found in a NASA facility at KSC on March…
Shuttle Discovery ‘ready to fly’ on last space mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – NASA said Tuesday the space shuttle Discovery is “ready to fly” on its final mission to the International Space Station and weather looks good for launch on February 24. “Over the last few months the team has been very busy effecting repairs to the external tank…
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