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Retired tires to roll out for loan: NASA's new Artifact Loan Opportunities Program, designed to reach "untraditional" audiences through the loan of space-flown hardware, hit the road this week with its first offer of space 
The most wondrous piece of hardware: ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" will be revealing Monday that its panel of experts have 
Vladimir Gevorkyan (1952-2008): Chosen for the cosmonaut corps in December 1978 Vladimir Gevorkyan, 55, 
Departure: One of Canada's original space explorers who flew on STS-85 as a payload specialist, 
When 'The World Is Not Enough': Many astronauts relate that of all the things they get to do in space, the one they relish the most is looking back at Earth. The space station's portals are the ultimate in picture windows. But when the world is not enough, they have a library of books, movies, tv shows and music to enjoy in their free time. The 
Dangerous space docs: Dangerous Films, the London, UK-based production company behind the Discovery Channel's NASA 50th anniversary HD mini-series "When We Left Earth" (
Launch tower toppled: Six seconds and over 200 pounds of explosives were all that were needed on Sunday to topple what was at one time the largest moving structure in the world. Erected in 1992 to support Titan IV launches, the mobile service tower at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Complex 40 may be best known for its role at the start of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn in 1997. In total, the tower prepared 17 Titan IVs and one Titan III (its first launch, lofting the Mars Observer probe), continuing the work of the tower it replaced, which was in service since 1965. As the Titan IV retired from service in 2005, 
Space Shuttle wing: Since 2001, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame has been honoring the men and women who have flown on the space shuttle, adding them to the ranks of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo veterans. The Hall, which is located in Florida near the Kennedy Space Center, bills itself as having "the world's largest collection of personal astronaut memorabilia," but until now, mostly featured artifacts from the pre-shuttle programs. With the next four astronauts 
Space station sakura: On Tuesday, JAXA approved a project to launch seeds from 10 cherry trees, including three designated as national treasures, to their laboratory on the International Space Station. Flying with lily and violet seeds, the 
Shadows of Soyuz 5: Soyuz TMA-11's off course landing may have been the result of more than just a ballistic mode reentry. The crew reported a jostling after the command was executed for the craft's service module to separate from the descent module, in which they were seated. The motion, which they deemed off-nominal, may have indicated a detachment failure, which may have put the spacecraft in a nose- or hatch-down orientation, rather than the normal heatshield-facing direction. Sources cited by Russian reports suggested that the greater heating led to damage to the capsule, including a communication cut- off linking the cosmonauts with the ground. NASA said on Tuesday that it was too early to speculate, but confirmed that Soyuz TMA-10, the previous Soyuz to land, was met with a separation issue. If indeed the two modules did not separate until aerodynamic stresses broke them free, the scenario would be 
Expedition 16 ends: Soyuz TMA-11 with International Space Station Expedition 16 crew mates Yuri Malenchenko and Peggy Whitson, as well as spaceflight participant Soyeon Yi onboard, landed in Kazakhstan safely but nearly 300 miles off-course Saturday morning. The steeper (and higher G) descent was the third time a returning ISS crew made a ballistic reentry though it was still unknown what caused today's landing to fall short of the expected target. Whitson's and Malenchenko's return brought 
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