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March 15, 2010 / 4:48 p.m. CT (2148 GMT)
Returning Enterprise to flight: It has been a quarter of a century since NASA's space shuttle prototype Enterprise last flew atop a modified Boeing 747 jetliner to be delivered to a museum. Now technicians from NASA and the United Space Alliance, working together with the Smithsonian, are getting Enterprise ready for its return to flight, inspecting and repairing OV-101 so that it can again journey to a new museum, making room for Discovery to take its place at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center.
March 12, 2010 / 10:43 a.m. CT (1643 GMT)
Naval astronaut Neil Armstrong: The first man to walk on the Moon was presented by the U.S. Navy on Wednesday with a pair of honorary Naval astronaut wings recognizing his "service to the Navy and in the field of space exploration." Neil Armstrong was awarded with the wings while he was aboard the USS Dwight D Eisenhower with the "Legends of Aerospace" military appreciation tour along with fellow Apollo astronauts Gene Cernan and Jim Lovell. Armstrong served as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952; the astronaut wings were not authorized until 1961.
March 10, 2010 / 4:35 a.m. CT (1035 GMT)
Star-studded premiere: Warner Bros. and IMAX Tuesday night traded Hollywood stars for the celestial variety as they premiered "Hubble 3D" at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Walking down the red carpet were astronauts from the final space shuttle Hubble servicing mission, who in the process of upgrading the space telescope in May 2009 also filmed their work in IMAX 3D. The movie, which looks at Hubble's legacy and how it's changed our view of the universe, opens a week from Friday in IMAX and IMAX 3D theaters worldwide.
March 5, 2010 / 11:30 a.m. CT (1730 GMT)
"Elvis" has entered the building: A space shuttle-flown Spacelab pallet that deployed the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) on two missions in 1992 and 1996 was delivered to the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne Friday, courtesy of the European Space Agency (ESA). A component of the joint ESA/NASA Spacelab program, the F0003 pallet, nicknamed "Elvis," flew aboard Atlantis' and Columbia's STS-46 and STS-75 flights, respectively, after first launching on Challenger's 1985 STS-51F Spacelab 2 mission. More than 10 Spacelab pallets were built with the last flown in 2008 for the space station's Dextre robot.
March 3, 2010 / 12:23 a.m. CT (0623 GMT)
Space Station wins Collier's Trophy: The National Aeronautics Association (NAA) on Wednesday named the International Space Station (ISS) as the winner of the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 2009. Presented "for the design, development, and assembly of the world's largest spacecraft," the NAA chose the orbiting laboratory for the promise it holds for "new discoveries for mankind," and for setting "new standards for international cooperation." The Collier Trophy, which is considered to be the top award for aviation, will be formally bestowed at NAA's annual Collier dinner to be held on May 13, 2010, in Arlington, Virginia.
March 2, 2010 / 9:14 p.m. CT (0314 GMT Mar 3)
Bill Taub, 1923-2010: "I had the privilege to be there to record it. I made sure I recorded it to the best of my ability because I have a sense of history," said Bill Taub, who from 1958 through 1975 served as NASA's first senior photographer. Taub, 86, died on Feb. 20. During his career with the agency, Taub covered every major event from the first flight of Mercury through the end of Apollo.
March 2, 2010 / 11:01 a.m. CT (1701 GMT)
Walked on the Moon, now "Dancing with the Stars": Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin will trade his moon boots for dancing shoes March 22 as the tenth season of the reality show "Dancing with the Stars" premieres on ABC. The series, which pairs celebrities with professional dancers for a ballroom dance competition, will also feature model Pamela Anderson, actress Shannon Doherty, figure skating champion Evan Lysacek, and seven others.
February 28, 2010 / 4:44 a.m. CT (1044 GMT)
Robert T. McCall, 1919-2010: Hailed as the world's premiere space artist, Robert McCall died of a heart attack Friday. He was 90. A prolific artist who left behind a legacy of 400 original paintings -- half of them donated to University of Arizona's Museum of Art -- some of his most famous works were his largest and smallest, including the Smithsonian's six-story tall "Cosmic View" space mural at the National Air and Space Museum and 21 U.S. postage stamps honoring the Apollo moon landings and unmanned probes sent to Mars and Jupiter. McCall was also known for designing the poster art for "2001: A Space Odyssey."
February 27, 2010 / 8:29 a.m. CT (1429 GMT)
Patch preview | STS-134: The penultimate space shuttle mission and the final flight of orbiter Endeavour will be represented by an insignia that creatively depicts the STS-134 mission's payload. Targeted for a July 2010 launch, STS-134 will fly to the International Space Station carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a cosmic ray particle physics detector designed to search for antimatter and dark matter. The atom-shaped patch, which identifies Endeavour's last crew as led by commander Mark Kelly, pilot Greg H. "Box" Johnson and mission specialists Mike Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Drew Feustel and ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, shows the orbiter as it returns from space.
February 27, 2010 / 1:29 a.m. CT (0729 GMT)
Aaron Cohen, 1931-2010: A NASA pioneer whose leadership was critical to the Apollo flights' and lunar landings' success as well as the design, development, production and early test flights of the space shuttle, Aaron Cohen, 79, died Feb. 25 after a lengthy illness. As director of the Johnson Space Center, Cohen was a steady hand as NASA recovered from the 1986 Challenger tragedy and returned the space shuttle to flight in 1988. After a 33-year career with NASA, including nine months as acting deputy administrator, Cohen left the agency in 1993 to accept an appointment as a professor at Texas A&M University.
February 26, 2010 / 12:20 a.m. CT (0620 GMT)
One last blast: The solid rocket motor fired Thursday in Promontory, Utah capped three decades of static tests for NASA's outgoing space shuttle program. The 52nd and final horizontal 'launch' for the four-segment solid rocket was aimed at generating data in support of NASA's four remaining shuttle missions. The first test, which was mounted on the same stand as the last, was in July 1977.
February 20, 2010 / 10:03 p.m. CT (0403 GMT Feb 21)
Space underpants sell, won't smell: After being tested in flight by Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata while he resided onboard the International Space Station last year, sales began in Japan Saturday of a new high-tech set of underwear developed to withstand the challenges of long-duration (read: two months) spaceflight. The "J-Ware" boxers were devised by textile experts at Japan Women's University in Tokyo to forego having to be washed (there's no laundromat in space) and still remain odor-free (for the sake of the crew) given their ability to kill bacteria, absorb water, insulate the body and dry quickly. The retail offer is limited for now to just 100 pairs each of sizes medium and large with a price tag per pair of 10,500 yen or about $115.
February 19, 2010 / 2:30 a.m. CT (0830 GMT)
Lacy Veach's 'windows on the world': An astronaut who led the early development of the International Space Station's Cupola but who didn't live to see out its seven windows himself was remembered Thursday evening with the installation of his flight suit's name tag inside the observation module. The tribute to Charles "Lacy" Veach, who flew two shuttle missions and was lead astronaut for station robotics before dying of cancer in 1995, took place during a ribbon cutting for the Tranquility node and Cupola conducted by Expedition 22 commander Jeff Williams and STS-130 commander George Zamka. Veach's name tag, which will be displayed alongside rocks collected from the moon and Mount Everest, was shown with his photo to be added to a memorial display on the station's airlock hatch.
February 17, 2010 / 12:04 p.m. CT (1804 GMT)
Patch chosen for shuttle's end: NASA on Monday announced Blake Dumesnil as the winner of its space shuttle commemorative patch contest, which challenged the space agency's past and current workers to design an insignia that marked the approaching retirement of the winged spacecraft. Dumesnil's winning artwork, which will be digitally uplinked to the International Space Station and then flown back to Earth with Endeavour's STS-130 crew, depicted the space transportation system flanked by the American flag and stars representing both NASA's orbiter fleet and the astronaut crews whose lives were lost flying aboard them. NASA also named Jennifer Franzo and Tim Gagnon as second and third place winners, respectively.
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