Question by LC: Why does it cost so much money to transport a space shuttle to the NASA Center? I am curious, in my Social Studies class today we were talking current events and she (my teacher) told us that shipping a space shuttle to the NASA Center costs more than 1.2 million dollars!...
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Why does it cost so much money to transport a space shuttle to the NASA Center?
Space Tourists’ Spacecraft to Join Shuttle Exhibits on Both Coasts (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – A self-funded space traveler loaned his Russian spacecraft to a museum Thursday (Dec. 8), where it will be exhibited near a full-size mockup of a U.S. space shuttle. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Final Space Shuttle Commander Leaving NASA (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – The last astronaut to command the space shuttle is retiring from NASA, the space agency announced today (Dec. 5). Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to the Moon
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U.S. space shuttle or the service life will be extended to next February – the space shuttle, aircra
Article by hi joiney Beijing on March 26, according to foreign media reports, according to NASA’s original plan, the last three space shuttles will be retired in September 2010. However, the latest news that the U.S. space shuttle service period may be extended to February 2011. Recently, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, held...
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Boeing to sign lease for U.S. space shuttle hangar (Reuters)
Reuters – Boeing Co plans to build space taxis at a mothballed space shuttle processing hangar at Kennedy Space Center in central Florida, according to company sources. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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NASA’s space shuttle operations chief heading to Virgin (Reuters)
Reuters – Deputy space shuttle program manager and former flight director Mike Moses is leaving NASA to oversee operations for Virgin Galactic, the commercial spaceflight company owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, the company said on Tuesday. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Bolden Travels to JSC to Discuss Space Shuttle Display, Space Exploration Program (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden journeyed to the Johnson Spaceflight Center in Houston to view a mockup of the Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle and to try to rouse moral in the NASA and contractor workforce, still reeling from post shuttle layoffs. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Astronauts Visit NYC’s Future Space Shuttle Home (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – NEW YORK — The last astronauts ever to fly on a NASA space shuttle visited the future home of the prototype for their winged spaceship today (Aug. 18): a World War II aircraft carrier that now serves as a floating museum. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Astronaur Pam Melroy flew the space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station to complete?
Question by Love You: Astronaur Pam Melroy flew the space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station to complete? construction in October of 2000. To undock from the space station Pilot Melroy released hooks holding the two spacecreaft together and the 68000 kg shuttle pushed away from the space station with the aid of...
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Last Space Shuttle Crew Lands at NYC Museum With Huge Crowd (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – NEW YORK — Hundreds of people flocked to the American Museum of Natural History today (Aug. 16) to hear the last space shuttle crew speak about the end of the shuttle program, and the future of NASA. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Shuttle Reentry Streak from Orbit
What’s that strange bright streak? APOD
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