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U.S., Russian Crew Blast Off For Space Station

2012-05-14T23:11:00Z

(Adds details, background) By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya KOROLYOV, Russia, May 15 (Reuters) - A Soyuz spaceship carrying ...

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Richard Garriott de Cayeux: The Legacy of the Space Shuttle

2012-05-08T21:14:09Z

The Space Shuttle has been the most successful space launch system ever by far. In 30 years we launched the Space Shuttle 135 times. Today more than half of the just over 500 people who have ever orbited the earth, have done so aboard one of the five space shuttles.

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Howard Steven Friedman: NASA Simply Stopped Being a Priority

2012-04-30T11:21:49Z

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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ZOOM IN: Super-Complicated Space Shuttle Cockpit

2012-04-19T11:55:31Z

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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Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Space Shuttles: The Glory of the Past

2012-04-17T13:57:13Z

Although space shuttles inspired generations of space-gazers and contributed greatly to our national pride and identity, there are many misconceptions about the space shuttles and their missions.

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Rep. Barney Frank: Change My Mind : The U.S. Should Send a Manned Mission to Mars

2012-04-02T12:54:40Z

When it comes to Mars exploration, the U.S. has been there, done that--with robotic rovers. But while many proposals have been put forth for sending astronauts to the Red Planet, none has gotten the green light. Yet.

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JOIN THE DEBATE: Should The U.S. Send An Astronaut To Mars?

2012-04-02T11:42:34Z

When it comes to Mars exploration, the U.S. has been there, done that—with robotic rovers. But while many proposals have been put forth for send...

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Carolyn Scott: Huntsville, Alabama's Healthy Spots

2012-03-07T12:45:00Z

Huntsville is a nice community filled with a ton of aerospace brainiacs, rich history and some great healthy food options.

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Rick Tumlinson: Big Ideas in Small Times

2012-01-31T18:15:36Z

Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round and someday people might fly. It may be those who laugh at such words whose minds are lost.

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Carolita Johnson: To the Moon!

2012-01-30T10:12:18Z

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Rick Tumlinson: Mars Science Laboratory -- Product vs. Process

2011-11-26T13:59:11Z

It has often seemed over the years that there are two government space programs. One is bold and experimental in its style and approach, giving me and the millions of other Americans who are paying for this something for our money.

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

2011-11-12T13:26:45Z

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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NASA Donates Space Food Leftovers To Schools

2011-09-14T10:02:32Z

Every little kid wants to be an astronaut, but July's termination of the Space Shuttle Program made that dream a few ounces more unattainable. But at ...

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Rick Tumlinson: NewSpace to the Rescue for the Space Station

2011-08-28T16:09:38Z

It is absurd that more then 50 years into the age of human spaceflight, the entire world depends on one launch system to get people to and from space.

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Bob Burnett: Lost in Space: The Decline of the American Spirit

2011-07-15T16:51:00Z

Fifty years after Alan Shepard became America's first astronaut, the U.S. launched its last space shuttle, marking the end of our space program -- and a new low for the American spirit.

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Adam Hanft: The Last Shuttle, the Endless Deficit, a Frozen Culture; a Meditation on Limits

2011-07-11T16:01:37Z

There's something puzzling about a president who wrote a book called The Audacity of Hope becoming the Privatizer-In-Chief, turning much of the space program over to for-profit companies.

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Iran Plans To Send Live Monkey Into Space

2011-06-27T17:01:13Z

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran says it plans to send a monkey into space next month as the next step in a space program that Western leaders worry could also br...

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Meg Waite Clayton: Freedom 7: 50 Years Ago Today, the First American in Space (VIDEO)

2011-05-05T16:44:14Z

Alan Shepard became the first American in space, twenty-three days after Russian Yuri Gagarin had orbited the earth. The flight was history-making.

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Rick Tumlinson: The Role of Government in a New American Space Agenda

2011-02-16T14:35:14Z

Although it was government that led the first wave over the barricades of gravity, it is now the people who are taking on the work, and all hands are needed.

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Terry Marotta: My Road Not Taken -- in Space

2011-01-28T13:51:52Z

In the Spring of '86 I became one of the final 40 contestants in the initiative to send a journalist up in space.

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Can NASA Change In Order To Survive?

2010-12-27T20:33:28Z

Early this month, Hawthorne-based rocket venture SpaceX launched an unmanned version of its Dragon capsule into orbit, took it for a few spins around ...

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NASA's Ares Rocket Dead, But Congress Lets You Pay $500 Million More For It

2010-12-27T20:02:41Z

Thanks to congressional inaction, NASA must continue to fund its defunct Ares I rocket program until March -- a requirement that will cost the agency ...

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Rick Tumlinson: The Battle for the Frontier -- A Historic Moment

2010-09-29T11:39:44Z

In the battle for the Frontier, the stakes are whether the United States will lead the world into space or relinquish itself to second world status by repeating the failed policies of the past.

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Obama Outlines NASA Space Program's Future: What It Means (PHOTOS)

2010-04-15T14:08:48Z

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – President Barack Obama declared Thursday he was "100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future" as he outlined ...

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Rick Tumlinson: Neil Armstrong -- Right Stuff -- Wrong on the New Space Plan

2010-04-14T14:15:19Z

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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