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March 3, 2015
Norm Carlson, test director who gave 'go' for Saturn V, shuttle and beans, dies
When U.S. astronauts next launch to space from Florida, the control team that oversees their liftoff may celebrate with the traditional crock of beans. If so, they'll be honoring the legacy of test director Norm Carlson, too.
March 2, 2015
F. Curt Michel, scientist-astronaut who left NASA after losing the moon, dies at 80
F. Curt Michel, an astrophysicist who was among NASA's first scientist-astronauts but who resigned after it became clear he would not fly to the moon, died Feb. 23, 2015. He was 80.
March 1, 2015
Astronauts add antennas, route cables on third of three station spacewalks
The International Space Station is now three steps, or rather spacewalks, closer to being ready for the arrival of new U.S. commercial crewed spacecraft with the completion of a trio of two-astronaut excursions.
February 27, 2015
Artist's 'Apollo 18' moon mission launching onto Times Square billboards
The countdown is on to the launch of Apollo 18 and you're invited to witness it from New York City's Times Square. "Apollo XVIII" by artist Marco Brambilla weaves footage from NASA missions with computer renderings to form a countdown to a fictional moon flight.
February 24, 2015
Cosmonaut Alexei Gubarev, led first multi-national space station crew, dies at 83
Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Gubarev, who trained to fly to the moon but instead led the first multi-national space station crew, died on Feb. 21. He was 83. Gubarev logged 37 days in orbit during the Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 28 missions.
February 24, 2015
NASA celebrates crawler-transporters first 50 years with test drive
With an eye towards the future, NASA has marked the first 50 years of its two rocket-moving crawler-transporters by taking one of the newly-upgraded massive machines out for a test drive to the launch pad.
February 20, 2015
Boeing, ULA break ground on new access tower for Atlas V crewed launches
Fifty-three years to the day after John Glenn ascended a tower to become the first U.S. astronaut to ride an Atlas rocket into orbit, Boeing and United Launch Alliance officials broke ground for the next access gantry that will support crewed Atlas launches.
February 20, 2015
Ripley's debuts space station made out of 280,000 matchsticks, believe it or not
When astronauts talk about what they used to construct the International Space Station, they refer to docking ports, large metal bolts and miles of cabling. All artist Patrick Acton needed were eight gallons of glue and about 280,000 matchsticks, believe it or not.
February 15, 2015
Fiery finale: ESA's last ATV space station freighter makes fleet's final re-entry
In the end, ESA's final space station cargo freighter went out in a fiery blaze rather than the "big bang" of its namesake. The ATV-5, christened the "Georges Lemaître" after the Belgian astronomer, plunged into the Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
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Collectors of space memorabilia flocked to the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum this weekend to have a bevy of space-related items reviewed by longtime appraiser Don Willis.
February 27, 2015
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Chris Hadfield's flight suit found in Toronto thrift store
A flight suit once worn by astronaut Chris Hadfield is apparently now the property of a Toronto doctor who found it in — of all places — a local thrift store.
February 10, 2015
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February 4, 2015
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Intelsat Decommissions Shuttle-rescued Satellite
Satellite operator Intelsat of Washington and Luxembourg has officially decommissioned the Intelsat 603 satellite, whose claim to fame was having been rescued by spacewalking NASA astronauts after being launched into a bad orbit nearly 25 years ago.
February 4, 2015
Los Angeles Times
State senator wants Sally Ride statue in U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall
A California state senator is proposing to place a statue of pioneering astronaut Sally Ride in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, which would make Ride the first woman to represent California and the first known gay person to be included in the collection.
January 30, 2015
Florida Today
U.S. Space Walk of Fame receives $100K donation
Having dedicated monuments to each of NASA's human spaceflight programs, including a shuttle monument last fall, a small Titusville nonprofit now aims to leverage space history to teach kids about science and engineering.
January 24, 2015
USA Today
Florida man hopes to save space race relic
An Air Force telescopic tracking station helped engineers monitor ascending rockets during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and shuttle eras. And for decades its domed roof served as a roadside landmark for travelers on highway A1A.
January 22, 2015
Air & Space Magazine
Supermarket Spaceships
Before the era of true space exploration, some major retailers built full-scale mock-ups of rocketships and took them on tours around the country.
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