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PHOTOS: A Water Park In Dubai?

Oneika Raymond | Posted 05.22.2012

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Oneika Raymond

I said yes to a trip to Atlantis, The Palm's Aquaventure water park in Dubai. Then I remembered that I can't swim.

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ZOOM IN: Super-Complicated Space Shuttle Cockpit

| Posted 04.19.2012

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This is the flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery. Several panels of switches are missing as part of her decommissioning process, as are closed c...

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Google Removes Fabled Sunken City From Maps

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 02.06.2012

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Google has crushed the hopes of Atlantis hunters everywhere by removing from Google Earth an image that had been rumored to be of the lost city. Th...

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Retired Space Shuttle To Get $100 Million Home

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 03.19.2012

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's retired space shuttle Atlantis is a step closer to completing its final journey. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor...

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Bianca Bosker

WATCH: NASA Astronaut Explains Why We Should Send Humans To Mars

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 10.17.2011

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As NASA shutters its space shuttle program and abandons its plans to return to the moon, why has the agency embarked on an ambitious new plan to send ...

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WATCH: Putin Goes Treasure-Hunting At 'Russia's Atlantis'

Posted 10.11.2011

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Just when you thought Vladimir Putin had done it all -- played hockey, crooned standards, flown planes and rode horses -- Russia's ever-ambitious prim...

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14 Incredible Fictional Worlds You'd Most Want to Visit (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.01.2011

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Some people dream of visiting India or Brazil -- other people have loftier, if not impossible, travel ambitions. With the summer travel season in ...

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Over and Out, Above and Beyond: Is the Space Age Over Or Just Beginning?

William Bradley | Posted 09.27.2011

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As I watched the last mission of Atlantis -- something utterly unimaginable in 1969 -- some of the old feeling came back. But it seemed, with due respect, rather generic, with a cloudy future overhanging it all.

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Historic Photos From NASA's Last Space Shuttle Landing

Posted 09.20.2011

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(AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) HOUSTON -- Applause erupted at NASA's Mission Control in Houston when the last space shuttle landed - but it wasn't from the ...

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End Of An Era: Space Shuttle Makes Historic Final Landing

AP | By MARCIA DUNN | Posted 09.20.2011

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See video of Atlantis' landing below. Click here for photos of the touchdown. (AP, By MARCIA DUNN) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Atlantis and four astronau...

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The 2nd Assassination of JFK Premieres in Conjunction With the Atlantis Flight

Mia R. Benenate | Posted 09.19.2011

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As Florida's Space Coast ends a celebrated American era with the close of NASA's manned shuttle program with launch of Atlantis, there is a palpable sadness in the air.

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Last Space Shuttle Crew Almost Done Packing Up

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 09.16.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronauts making NASA's last shuttle flight gave up their off-duty time Sunday and finished packing up their giganti...

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Emergency Alarm Wakes Space Shuttle Astronauts To Computer Failure

AP | By MARCIA DUNN | Posted 09.15.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The pilots on NASA's last space shuttle flight fixed another one of their main computers Friday after it failed and set off an...

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Space Shuttle Astronauts Enjoy Some Time Off, Eat Hostess Apple Pie

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 09.13.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After getting a little free time Thursday, the last space shuttle crew was woken up to deal with a second computer failur...

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Atlantis Docks At Space Station For Final Time

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 09.09.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — As the miles melted between Atlantis and the International Space Station, the emotions grew – in orbit and on the g...

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Former Astronaut Story Musgrave Blasts NASA Over Space Program Failures

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.08.2011

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Houston, we have a problem ... with NASA. As the space shuttle Atlantis orbits Earth in the final mission of NASA's 30-year reusable spacecraft leg...

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PHOTOS: Space Shuttle Launch Seen From An Airplane

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 09.07.2011

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The most memorable part of Ryan Graff's high school graduation trip to Miami might be the flight to Fort Lauderdale. As he and his mom were flying ...

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Astronaut's Bittersweet Memories Of Space Shuttle Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.06.2011

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The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off and disappeared into the sky Friday, and with it went NASA's longest running space travel program. The final ...

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Thel Shuttle Launch: Witnessing the Last Trip to the Final Frontier

gadling.com | Paul Brady | Posted 09.07.2011

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Newspaper Confuses 'Atlantis' With Doomed 'Challenger' Space Shuttle

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 09.07.2011

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The Atlantis space shuttle blasted into space Friday in a historic launch that marked the final flight of NASA's 30-year space program. Yet just m...

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The 11 Most Memorable Space Shuttle Program Moments

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 09.07.2011

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From the space shuttle Columbia's first launch to the infamous Challenger explosion, three decades of American space exploration have produced some of...

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Astronauts' Most Daring Spacewalks

The Huffington Post | Annemarie Dooling | Posted 09.07.2011

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Wearing a 300-pound suit, blasting off the face of the planet and working in zero-gravity is all just another day at work for the brave men and women ...

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Ready For Take-Off: Scenes From The Last Space Shuttle Launch

The Huffington Post | Cooper Smith | Posted 09.07.2011

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Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 8 at approximately 11:26 ET . This...

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Space Shuttle Blasts Off For The Last Time

AP | Marcia Dunn | Posted 09.07.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's final four shuttle astronauts boarded Atlantis for liftoff Friday on the last flight of the 30-year program, even as po...

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NASA Sets Date For Last-Ever Shuttle Launch

Posted 08.29.2011

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(MARCIA DUNN, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The last space shuttle launch ever is set for July 8. NASA managers met at Kennedy Sp...

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