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National Flight Academy For Teens Is 'Space Camp To The Next Level'

AP | MELISSA NELSON | Posted 05.11.2012

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PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. -- The panicked voice came into Ambition's air traffic control room – one of the aircraft carrier's young pilo...

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Ancestors of Michelle Obama in the 1940 Census

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.15.2012

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Megan Smolenyak

The cost for nine relatives of the First Lady -- including her mother, grandparents and great-grandparents -- to rent these cozy quarters in 1940? $45 a month or roughly the equivalent of $737 today.

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PHOTOS: Space Walks And Gorgeous Views From NASA's Gemini Missions

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 04.06.2012

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April 2012 marks 50 years since the beginning of NASA's Gemini program. Carried out from 1962-1966, during the feverish middle years of the space race...

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Celebrities in the 1940 Census

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.04.2012

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Megan Smolenyak

One has to wonder if nine-year-old Neil Armstrong, who once spent his days walking around St. Mary's, Ohio, ever imagined that he would eventually be the first to walk on the moon.

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Apollo 11 Site Glimpsed Again In Image From NASA Satellite

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 03.13.2012

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“It has a stark beauty all its own.” Those are the words Neil Armstrong used to describe the lunar landscape shortly after becoming the first man ...

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FIRST Things First

Dean Kamen | Posted 03.05.2012

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Dean Kamen

If kids looked at Nicola Tesla or Bill Gates the way they look at LeBron James and Tom Brady, then I guarantee that our students' enthusiasm for math and science would match their passion for Little League and Pop Warner.

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American Space Exploration Leadership -- Why and How

Buzz Aldrin | Posted 03.05.2012

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Buzz Aldrin

2012 is an inflection year -- the year we will and must decide whether the U.S. has the will and ability to lead the world in human space exploration. For me, I am betting we do -- and here is how I suggest we begin.

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Arms and Bahrain

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 01.25.2012

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Christopher Brauchli

The question is why the United States was even thinking of selling arms to Bahrain. The answer can be found in the fact that the United States is the number one arms supplier in the world and to maintain its status it cannot be judgmental about the conduct of its customers.

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Can You Caption This Photo?

Posted 11.17.2011

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SCROLL DOWN TO READ ALL THE CAPTIONS We spend most of our days coming up with funny things to say about ridiculous photos, so it's only fair that w...

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Neil Armstrong: U.S. Space Program Is 'Embarrassing'

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.26.2011

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Perhaps the most famous astronaut of all time, Neil Armstrong, had some harsh words for the U.S. space program last week. Testifying before Congres...

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Friday Talking Points -- What Would Ronald Reagan Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2011

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Chris Weigant

Since the Republican Party now worships at the altar of "Saint Ronald of Reagan," it's always fun to point out the hard, cold fact that Reagan would simply not be acceptable to the Republican Party as it stands today.

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Interview With a Philosopher: Lou Marinoff -- Part Two

Tom Morris | Posted 09.21.2011

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Tom Morris

In a free and open society, such as ours, citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately, that leaves room for a lot of future criminals and blossoming psychopaths to cross the line without prior intervention or restraint.

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Apollo's Children and the NewSpace Revolution

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 09.21.2011

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Rick Tumlinson

The shuttle program ended this week just as we celebrated the 42nd anniversary of Apollo. It is poetic and yet sad. It also begs the question, what ne...

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Final Shuttle Landing Brings Memories of Apollo Astronauts

James M. Clash | Posted 09.16.2011

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James M. Clash

"As I stepped up onto the ladder, I looked back at Earth in all its splendor -- I call it sitting on God's front porch looking home -- then down at my last footprint and realized, 'Hey, I'm not coming this way again.'"

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50 Years Later: The Alan Shepard Freedom 7 Flight

Neal Thompson | Posted 07.03.2011

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Neal Thompson

From the start, exploring space was all about the race, the competition between two superpowers, each flexing their nation's brains and brawn. Who wou...

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Brooklyn, We Have a Problem

Charlie Carillo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charlie Carillo

A signed copy of Neil Armstrong's flight plan for the Apollo 11 moon mission just sold at auction for $51,000. But if my late grandmother had been there, she would not have lifted her bidding paddle.

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Neil Armstrong Talks About The First Moon Walk

npr.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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Well, this doesn't happen every day. In yesterday's post, I talked about Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's walk across the lunar surface back in 196...

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A Sad Anniversary: John Lennon's Assassination

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Margie Goldsmith

I was recently in Montreal at Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where John and Yoko bedded down.

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Neil Armstrong's Customs Form Stolen Feds Charge

AOL Travel News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two men, one a US Customs official, are facing federal charges in Boston for stealing Astronaut Neil Armstrong's signed customs declaration form. ...

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Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan Defend Space Program Funding At Senate Hearings

TIME | Katy Steinmetz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In terms of Senate hearings, this one had all the right stuff: high stakes, passionate speeches, shutdowns and -- as if that weren't enough -- astrona...

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Obama's NASA Policy Divides Neil Armstong, Buzz Aldrin

AP/Huffington Post | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is reviving the NASA crew capsule concept that he had canceled with the rest of the moon program earlier thi...

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Neil Armstrong BLASTS Obama's 'Devastating' Space Plan

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former astronauts Neil Armstrong, James Lovell, and Eugene Cernan slammed President Barack Obama's proposed changes to the US space program, describin...

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Neil Armstrong -- Right Stuff -- Wrong on the New Space Plan

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Tumlinson

I and many others working on the New Space revolution now underway in space watched Armstrong walk on the Moon and it changed our lives. But now he is trying to stop us from taking our turn.

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Allegra Huston Aims Her Creative Storm at NASA's Mission Control

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Georgianne Nienaber

It is appropriate that journalist and memoirist Allegra Huston conducts regular writing workshops called "The Imaginative Storm." If the name Huston...

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What Did the Moon Ever Do To Us?

Ellen Whitehurst | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ellen Whitehurst

So, it looks like NASA's mission to blast a hole in the surface of the south pole of the moon is continuing as previously planned and could occur any day now.

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