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Patch-on-need: NASA began on Thursday the assembly of the external tank and solid rocket boosters that will launch Endeavour on the STS-126 mission in November. The "stack" (when completed) will first however, stand ready on Pad 39B as a 'Launch-On-Need' vehicle in support of STS-125, the last shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, which is set to liftoff on October 8 with Atlantis. In the unlikely scenario that the STS-125 crew is needed to be rescued as a result of their shuttle suffering damage beyond repair, the four flight deck crew members from Endeavour's last flight, STS-123 in March, will again launch aboard the orbiter. Although every shuttle mission since 2005 has had a Launch-On-Need mission assigned, STS-400's unique flight plan has attracted media attention and has inspired 
To The Moon: In honor of what would have been his 100th birthday, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum opened today an 11-month major exhibit covering the U.S. space efforts. "To the Moon: The American Space Program in the 1960s" features interactive displays (including a simulation of the first American spacewalk by Ed White) and artifacts exhibits from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. The 
Fermi Telescope (was: GLAST): NASA on Tuesday debuted the first results and a new name for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), which was launched in June. Over 1,200 submissions were entered by the public since NASA began accepting name ideas for the high-energy astronomy observatory in February. Fermi was 
Mythbusters mementos: On Wednesday evening, Discovery Channel will debut the much-anticipated episode of "Mythbusters" tackling the claims that the manned moon landings were faked in a studio. As part of our 
One small man: Thirty years ago Monday, the first Lego minifigure was manufactured and packed into a Lego set. That 'miniman' was a firefighter, but soon to follow was an astronaut and since then, 2-inch spacemen have become a standard among the four billion men sold. The 
Moon dust markers: The 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing in July of next year is expected to be celebrated with an array of commemorative items. Two of the 
Rocket lost, debris found: Lifting off from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Friday, a new Alliant Techsystems (ATK) ALV X-1 suborbital rocket was 27 seconds into flight when it was destroyed by range safety as a result of it veering south from its target azimuth. The two stage, 53-foot tall solid propellant rocket was expected to carry its Navy and NASA cargo, including two hypersonic experiments, to an altitude greater than that of the space station before dropping into the ocean. Most of the debris from the exploded vehicle still fell into the Atlantic, though there were 
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Home away from home: A week and a half after the Mets play their final regular season game at Shea Stadium (the New York team moves to the new Citi Field in 2009) a literal landmark from the 44 year old diamond will take a trip greater than 85 million orbits around the mound. On October 8, STS-125 spacewalker Mike Massimino will launch with the 
Animated Apollo: nWave Pictures' "Fly Me To The Moon" opens Friday in U.S. 3-D and IMAX theaters. The film, which claims to be the first ever animated movie created for 3D follows three young houseflies as they stow away aboard the real 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing mission that made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (who voices his own character as well as appears in a live action epilogue) the first men on the Moon. Reviewers 
John Bull (1934-2008): 
His other bike is a spacecraft: Beginning Wednesday in Cape Flattery cross country to Cape Canaveral, former astronaut John Herrington launches on a 4,000-mile coast to coast 
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