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February 18, 2021 The New York Times
Bruce Blackburn, Designer of Ubiquitous NASA Logo, Dies at 82
Bruce Blackburn, a graphic designer whose modern and minimalist logos became ingrained in the nation's consciousness, including the four bold red letters for NASA known as the "worm" and the 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial star, died on Feb. 1 in Arvada, Colo., near Denver. He was 82.
February 12, 2021 The New York Times
Earth to Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk to You Again
In the nearly 44 years since NASA launched Voyager 2, the spacecraft has gone beyond the frontiers of human exploration by visiting Uranus, Neptune and, eventually, interstellar space. Last March, the agency was compelled to shut down its only means of reaching 12 billion miles across the heavens to this robotic trailblazer. On Friday, Earth's haunting silence will come to an end as NASA switches that communications channel back on, restoring humanity's ability to say hello to its distant explorer.
January 27, 2021 Florida Today
Charles Hollinshead, one time "Voice of Apollo," dies
Charles T. Hollinshead, the last living NASA launch commentator for the Apollo Program passed away Monday at a veterans home in Asheville, North Carolina, after contracting Covid-19.
December 25, 2020 The Times, London
Ashes of Star Trek's Scotty smuggled on to International Space Station
As one of Star Trek's most beloved characters, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott spent a lifetime exploring the galaxy on the USS Enterprise, boldly going beyond the final frontier. Now it can be revealed that in death the actor who played the starship's chief engineer has travelled nearly 1.7 billion miles through space, orbiting Earth more than 70,000 times, after his ashes were hidden secretly on the International Space Station.
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