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February 1, 2012
Petition pushes for Pluto probe postage
Twenty-one (21) years ago, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) issued a stamp depicting the now on-again, off-again planet Pluto with the inscription "Not Yet Explored." Now, the team behind NASA's first mission to the last planet wants to correct that with a stamp of their own.
January 30, 2012
Documenting Discovery: NASA, archivists work to record space shuttles' history
While the Smithsonian gets ready to receive the space shuttle Discovery for display this spring, NASA, along with archivists working in four states, is recording the orbiter and its sister ships' history digitally and on paper.
January 26, 2012
Freedom 7 Mercury capsule leaving Naval Academy for JFK Library, Smithsonian
The Mercury capsule that launched the first American into space more than 50 years ago will soon be moved from Maryland to Massachusetts, before ultimately landing in Washington, DC in 2016.
January 24, 2012
Three space shuttle veterans selected for Astronaut Hall of Fame
A spacewalker who tied the record for the most space missions, the military's highest ranking astronaut, and a former chief of the NASA astronaut corps will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Florida this May.
January 22, 2012
NASA hands over shuttle trainer 'keys' to Seattle museum
NASA handed over the "keys" for the Full Fuselage Trainer, its only full-length shuttle training mockup, to The Museum of Flight in Seattle, clearing the wooden orbiter to leave Houston in May for its new display home in the northwest.
January 18, 2012
NASA spaceport breaks ground for shuttle Atlantis display
The final astronaut to lead a space shuttle mission returned to his launch and landing site in Florida to help in breaking the ground for his spacecraft's display. Astronaut Chris Ferguson joined NASA and Florida officials for the ground breaking for shuttle Atlantis' $100 million, 65,000-square-foot exhibit.
January 17, 2012
Students name NASA's twin moon probes 'Ebb' and 'Flow'
NASA's twin, gravity-mapping moon probes received new names Jan. 17, reflecting their mission to study the changing pull of Earth's natural satellite. Now to be called "Ebb" and "Flow," the GRAIL, or Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, spacecraft entered lunar orbit on New Year's Eve and Day.
January 15, 2012
Failed Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt falls back to Earth, drops debris in ocean
Russia's Phobos-Grunt robotic probe, once destined to touch down on one of Mars' two moons, made a far less impressive landing on Jan. 15, breaking into pieces and falling into the Pacific Ocean.
January 9, 2012
Apollo astronauts meet with NASA to clear claims on mission mementos
Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell and a few of his fellow former Apollo astronauts were in Washington, D.C. Jan. 9, where they met with NASA to address "misunderstandings" over the ownership of the mementos they kept from their missions.
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January 24, 2012
Florida Today
Space shuttle Discovery to fly again during April trip to Smithsonian
Shuttle fleet leader Discovery is expected to depart Kennedy Space Center on April 17 for a non-stop ferry flight to Dulles International Airport, NASA and the Smithsonian Institution confirmed today.
January 22, 2012
Los Angeles Times
James Arnold dies at 88; pushed to unlock secrets in moon rocks
When President John F. Kennedy announced in 1961 that America was committed to "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the decade, winning the race became the paramount objective of the national space program.
January 15, 2012
The Huntsville Times
Apollo astronauts tell NASA 'hands off our artifacts'
It's an Apollo astronaut's flight checklist, but not just any astronaut and not just any flight. Still, when a bidder at a Texas auction offered $388,000 in November for James Lovell's Apollo 13 checklist, even the auction house was surprised. The final bid was 15 times the pre-auction estimate.
January 9, 2012
The Downey Beat
Space shuttle transfer: city gets $100,000 to exclude space shuttle mock up from Tierra Luna development
The developer of the Tierra Luna project has agreed to pay the city $100,000 to exclude a life-sized mockup of the space shuttle from its 77-acre property.
January 9, 2012
The New York Times
To Preserve History on the Moon, Visitors Are Asked to Tread Lightly
California's catalog of historic artifacts includes two pairs of boots, an American flag, empty food bags, a pair of tongs and more than a hundred other items left behind at a place called Tranquillity Base.
January 5, 2012
Los Angeles Times
For sale: Nuclear bomb-proof space station in Carmel Valley
Who wouldn't want to own a nuclear bomb-proof earth station and a piece of space history?
January 1, 2012
Orlando Sentinel
NASA space artifacts command top dollar
More than 40 years ago, it was priceless.
December 27, 2011
Courier Times
Centrifuge has new mission: Party
When the speakers croon "Fly Me to the Moon" at a new event space in Warminster, it's no fantasy.
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