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May 16, 2012 / 2:09 p.m. CT (1909 GMT)
There be (no) Dragons: Packed aboard and set to launch on SpaceX's first Dragon to fly the International Space Station are students' experiments and mission patches as part of NCESSE's Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Mission 1 to ISS, named Aquarius. The 15 liquid mixing experiments and 22 emblems were selected out of thousands of proposals and designs. But in an ironic twist, none of the students' patches depict the vehicle on which their experiments will fly and make history in the process.
May 14, 2012 / 10:41 p.m. CT (0341 GMT May 15)
Smokey and fire: Three new crew members launched for the International Space Station Monday, soaring atop a pillar of smoke and fire from a Russian rocket. Soyuz TMA-04M crew mates Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin and Joe Acaba will arrive at the orbiting complex Thursday and stay for four months. The trio's talisman, which served as their "zero-g indicator," is Smokey Bear, the long-time mascot of the U.S. Forest Service, as provided by Acaba.
May 13, 2012 / 12:21 p.m. CT (1721 GMT)
Enterprise grounded: Early Sunday, space shuttle Enterprise moved one step closer to its public display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Overnight, the original prototype orbiter was hoisted off the modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft that flew it to a landing at JFK International Airport on April 27. Enterprise will wait at the airport until June 4, when it is set to begin a three-day river journey by barge to deliver it to the Intrepid.
May 11, 2012 / 10:06 a.m. CT (1506 GMT)
Endeavour unplugged: For the last time in history, a space shuttle went dark on Friday. NASA pulled the plug on its youngest orbiter Endeavour, the last of its three shuttles still able to be powered, at 8:58 a.m. CDT as the preparations to deliver it for display at the California Space Center continued. NASA recently invited collectSPACE on board Endeavour's flight deck for a last look at a lit shuttle.
May 10, 2012 / 8:27 p.m. CT (0127 GMT May 11)
Astronaut blasts off on Big Bang Theory: Mike Massimino isn't a Soyuz crewmember, but he plays one on TV. The real-life NASA astronaut made his second cameo on CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" on Thursday, joining the show's Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) to launch to the International Space Station aboard a Russian capsule. collectSPACE caught up with Massimino to talk about the show, its mock spacecraft and spacesuits, and the future of spaceflight, both by NASA and "The Big Bang Theory."
May 9, 2012 / 4:45 p.m. CT (2145 GMT)
Shuttlebration: Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for the NASA Johnson Space Center in Texas, announced Tuesday that a high fidelity space shuttle mockup will arrive by barge on June 1. Sailing into Clear Lake, the shuttle's landing will launch "Shuttlebration," a 3 day public celebration that will culminate in a parade down NASA Road 1, delivering the shuttle to the space center.
May 9, 2012 / 11:55 a.m. CT (1755 GMT)
Sponsor-a-shuttle: Stars or tiles, take your pick... New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and the California Science Center in Los Angeles have each launched sponsor campaigns to fund their permanent displays for space shuttles Enterprise and Endeavour, respectively. The Intrepid's "Project Enterprise" offers to display donors' names on stars placed alongside the prototype orbiter. The California Science Center's "Team Endeavour" offers heat shield tiles (virtual ones) with their sponsors' names. Both offer additional incentives for larger gifts, including limited edition collectibles and priority viewing of the shuttles.
May 6, 2012 / 11:00 a.m. CT (1700 GMT)
Astronaut Hall of Fame adds 3: More than two dozen Hall of Fame astronauts gathered at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday to welcome three veteran fliers into their ranks. Franklin Chang Diaz, Kevin Chilton and Charles Precourt were enshrined as the Hall of Fame's 11th class of space shuttle inductees, and the first to be inducted after the 30 year shuttle program ended.
May 5, 2012 / 11:01 a.m. CT (1701 GMT)
Neil Armstrong's ride soars on eBay: Bids for a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette that astronaut Neil Armstrong is claimed to have been first to drive have soared to nearly a quarter of a million dollars, with still a day left before the eBay auction closes. Described as the ultimate "barn find" and covered in "30+ years of dust," the seller presents the car's original General Motors "Protect-O-Plate" as his proof that N. A. Armstrong was the Vette's first owner, leased to him under a special arrangement offered to the astronauts.
May 3, 2012 / 10:30 p.m. CT (0330 GMT May 4)
Saturn V shot: The historic Saturn V rocket in Huntsville, Ala. was defaced by bullets on Thursday when someone opened fire on the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Two out of the three bullets that were shot at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration hit the moon booster's third stage, causing dents and paint to peel but no holes. "They hit it and bounced off," said exhibits director Ed Stewart in an interview. The third bullet passed between the first and second stages, avoiding the J-2 engines, and hit a wall.
April 30, 2012 / 4:25 p.m. CT (2125 GMT)
Ask the astronaut: Edgar Mitchell, who with Alan Shepard explored the moon during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission, is now taking your questions as part Astro Chat, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's video Q&A series. Just as Al Worden, Dick Gordon, Jack Lousma, and Fred Gregory did before him, Mitchell will share video replies to questions shared on Facebook and collectSPACE's forum, where the videos will be shared for all to watch afterwards. The deadline to post questions about his time on the moon and in space is 8 a.m. CDT (1300 GMT) Friday, May 4.
April 29, 2012 / 3:19 p.m. CT (2019 GMT)
Astronaut award: John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit the Earth 50 years ago and 36 years later returned to space as the oldest to ever fly, has been a chosen for the nation's highest civilian honor, the White House announced. Together with other notable Americans, including Madeline Albright, Bob Dylan, and Toni Morrison, Glenn will be honored by President Barack Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. With this award, Glenn will join the small group of astronauts – including the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 crews – to receive the medal since 1963.
April 27, 2012 / 10:38 a.m. CT (1538 GMT)
Big Apple arrival: NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise made its first – and last – flight in more than a quarter century on Friday, flying atop the same modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft that carried it airborne for its 1977 Approach and Landing Test flights. Enterprise's final frontier is the Big Apple, where it landed after a photogenic flyover of the city's landmarks on its way to becoming an exhibit on board the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
April 27, 2012 / 6:48 a.m. CT (1148 GMT)
TMA-22 touches down: After spending 165 days, 7 hours and 31 minutes off the Earth, Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 returned Friday with cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, and NASA astronaut Dan Burbank onboard. The Expedition 30 crew members, who undocked from the International Space Station three-and-a-half hours before landing, touched down on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 6:45 a.m. CDT. The trio's departure from the ISS began Expedition 31 with commander Oleg Kononenko and flight engineers Donald Pettit and Andre Kuipers aboard.
April 24, 2012 / 12:30 p.m. CT (1730 GMT)
Them thar asteroids: Planetary Resources, Inc. announced on Tuesday its plan to mine Near Earth Asteroids for their raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. The company, which was founded in 2009 by the same entrepreneurs who gave start to the modern space tourism market and backed by Google executives among other billionaires, is poised to initiate prospecting missions to resource-rich asteroids that are "easily accessible."
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