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NASA Simply Stopped Being a Priority

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.30.2012

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Howard Steven Friedman

Will we look back and ask ourselves whether the decision to abandon space was a wise decision? Or will historians look back and identify this decision as a textbook example of when America sacrificed long-term strategic goals for short-term interests.

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Va. Legislator Proposes Tax Subsidies For Space Burials

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The great unknown meets the great beyond meets tax policy. Virginia Del. Terry G. Kilgore (R) is proposing an $8,000 tax credit for p...

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Herman Cain: 'We Are Not Going To Bum A Ride To Outer Space'

AP | RAY HENRY | Posted 01.12.2012

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ATLANTA — Republican Herman Cain said God convinced him to enter the race for president, comparing himself to Moses: "'You've got the wrong man,...

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Best NASA-Inspired Movies

Posted 09.20.2011

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Well, the days of the space shuttle are at an end. But you know what, we had a good run. Truth be told, we had way more fun with the idea of space...

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Bianca Bosker

Astronaut Explains Why We Should Send People To Space

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 09.18.2011

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The 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster, which killed all seven crew members on board just 73 seconds into the flight, convinced Tracy Caldwell Dys...

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Farewell, Space!

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 09.18.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The last space shuttle is headed home. Atlantis left the International Space Station on Tuesday and slipped away after a...

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Last Space Shuttle Crew Bids Historic Goodbye To Space Station

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 09.17.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronauts on NASA's final shuttle voyage floated out of the International Space Station for the last time Monday, le...

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NASA Probe To Circle Giant Asteroid After 4 Years In Space

AP | By ALICIA CHANG | Posted 09.14.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- After four years sailing through space, the Dawn spacecraft was expected to slip into orbit late Friday around a giant asteroid to begi...

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Reflections On Outer Space And Our Inner Soul

Shastri Purushotma | Posted 09.11.2011

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Shastri Purushotma

Our exploration of space has allowed us, for the first time, to see our planet as a whole in its dazzling beauty, without the man-made borders for which so much blood was shed.

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Shuttle Astronauts Get Busy With Space Station Stockpiling

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 09.10.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station got a year's worth of groceries in a giant shopping cart Monday, courtesy of the astronau...

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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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LIFT OFF!

Posted 09.07.2011

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(MARCIA DUNN, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA's last space shuttl...

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NASA's 30-Year Space Program In Photos

Posted 09.07.2011

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The launch of the space shuttle Atlantis marks the final flight of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. During the past several decades, NASA's sp...

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NASA's Secret Beach House: Where Astronauts Relax Before Launch

The Huffington Post | Megan Hess | Posted 09.06.2011

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Before blasting off into space, the astronauts of the last Space Shuttle mission will spend their final hours of free time in a private beach house ab...

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NASA Engineer: Space Shuttle Is 'Magnificent Flying Machine'

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 09.05.2011

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As NASA's 30-year space shuttle program winds down, engineer Paul Sharpe sat down with the BBC and reflected on his life working with these "magnifice...

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Space Shuttle's Legacy: Soaring In Orbit And Costs

Posted 09.04.2011

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(SETH BORENSTEIN, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of th...

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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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A Daughter's Dream of Space (As an Era Comes to a Close)

Margaret Lazarus Dean | Posted 08.19.2011

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Margaret Lazarus Dean

Sometimes people ask me how I grew to love spaceflight. I used to answer that I spent a lot of time at the Smithsonian as a kid. But as time went on, my answer started to reach back one step further.

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A Nation in Need of Awe

Terry Newell | Posted 08.04.2011

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Terry Newell

NASA launches have become so routine that the media barely take notice. After 125 missions, perhaps this is to be expected. We can get used to almost anything, taking for granted what our energy, ingenuity, and dreams have granted us.

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Tips for NASA: Houston, You Have a Problem

John Bobey | Posted 07.26.2011

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John Bobey

You shot yourself in the foot by calling them Space Shuttles. "Shuttles" don't boldly go where no man has gone before, they go to Chicago, and occasionally bring you from Parking Lot T to the front entrance of the State Fair.

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NASA Announces New Spacecraft For Astronauts

AP | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 07.24.2011

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HOUSTON -- NASA announced Tuesday that it found the ideal spaceship to take astronauts far from earth - the same one they've been working on for sever...

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What's Next For Space Shuttles?

AP | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 07.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As the space shuttle program winds down, questions are flying about what's happening and why. The launch countdown began Friday for the ...

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Another Delay For Shuttle Launch

AP | By MARCIA DUNN | Posted 07.06.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The next-to-last space shuttle flight has been delayed again, this time to at least the middle of May for extra electrical tes...

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Die-Hard Space Fans Flock To One Of Shuttle's Last Launches

CNN | Posted 06.15.2011

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It's now become a somewhat common event, one that for most Americans is signaled by nothing more than a brief blip on the news. But a space shuttle la...

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