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March 10, 2010
Smithsonian rolls out red carpet for IMAX Hubble 3D world premiere
The star of the Warner Brothers and IMAX film "Hubble 3D" missed the movie's world premiere at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, but for good reason: it was orbiting 350 miles above Earth.
February 28, 2010
Space artist Robert T. McCall, 90, dies
An artist whose visions of the past, present, and future of space exploration have graced U.S. stamps, NASA patches, and the walls of the Smithsonian, Robert McCall died Feb. 26 of a heart attack in Scottsdale, AZ.
February 25, 2010
One last blast: Final firing for space shuttle solid rocket ground tests
The thunderous roar from a space shuttle solid rocket booster (SRB) reverberating and rebounding off of northern Utah's mountains was heard for a last time Feb. 25, as NASA and ATK ignited their 52nd and final ground test, capping three-decades of static firings.
February 17, 2010
NASA announces winning patch design in end-of-shuttle contest
A launching space shuttle bounded by the American flag and stars hailing both NASA's orbiter fleet and the astronauts whose lives were lost while flying aboard them has been chosen by NASA as its insignia to mark the retirement of the winged spacecraft.
February 8, 2010
Shuttle launch lights the night for last time
Space shuttle Endeavour pierced the pre- dawn sky over Florida, creating an artificial sunrise for what is expected to be the last time. With just four missions remaining after the current STS-130 flight, all are currently scheduled to launch during the day.
February 5, 2010
Super Bowl's start hinges on space coin
It may be one small flip, but the coin that'll decide whether the New Orleans Saints or Indianapolis Colts possess the ball at the start of Super Bowl XLIV will have already made a giant leap when it hits the field at Miami Gardens' Sun Life Stadium.
February 4, 2010
Mementos from NASA's canceled moon program flying on space shuttle
Twenty-five (25) lapel pins, each bearing the logo of NASA's now-canceled Constellation program to return astronauts to the Moon, are packed and poised to launch onboard shuttle Endeavour for a round trip mission to the International Space Station.
February 1, 2010
NASA employees, public pick favorites for end-of-shuttle program patch
After three weeks polling employees, NASA has identified the "People's Choice" for their patch marking the end of the space shuttle program. The chosen design received nearly 30% of the workers' votes, but differed from the choice ranked highest by fans during an unofficial public poll.
January 19, 2010
To the ISS and beyond! Disney picks Buzz Lightyear patch to fly to space station
Buzz Lightyear, the animated space ranger who, in action figure form, flew to the space station in 2008, now has an official mission patch courtesy of an 11-year old artist.
January 15, 2010
NASA cuts price for retired space shuttles
NASA slashed its multi-million dollar price tag for museums looking to acquire one of its three space shuttle orbiters after they are retired later this year. The due date for the reduced payment, which was discounted by almost one-third, was also moved up by six months.
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March 14, 2010
Washington Post
NASA photographer Bill Taub dies at 86
Bill Taub, 86, a self-taught NASA photographer who documented the country's major aeronautics and space-flight events from 1958 to 1975, including the missions that sent the first men into orbit and onto the moon, died Feb. 20 at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham. He had pneumonia and multiple organ failure.
March 11, 2010
Space.com
Historic Space Antenna Starts Vital Repairs
Like the knees of many other middle-aged workers, the joints of the enormous Mars Antenna need replacing. The giant radio dish is a crucial element of NASA's Deep Space Network, and has worked tirelessly at its location in Goldstone, Calif., for over 40 years.
March 9, 2010
Wired Science
Better Than Apollo: The Space Program We Almost Had
In the late 1950s, American space companies jumped into a headlong race to build an aerospace industry that could launch missiles across the world and rockets above it.
March 8, 2010
BBC News
A rummage in the Apollo archive
One of the delights of working for the BBC is that you get to dip occasionally into its vast archive.
March 8, 2010
Russia Today
First cosmonaut team marks half a century
This month marks 50 years since the Soviet Union picked the team that were to become the first humans in space.
March 7, 2010
Alamogordo Daily News
Museum creates space trail
For more than two decades, the New Mexico Museum of Space History, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, has been developing the "New Mexico Space Trail."
March 4, 2010
Hutchinson News
Landing nears for Apollo 13 reunion
Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise will be among those attending a reunion and 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 13, the most "successful failure" in NASA history, next month at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.
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