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Mighty Quinn: January 14
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Mighty's going with Kansas on Monday. Mighty, Dennis Farley and Timmy (The Mayor) Tierney once played golf at Douglaston GC years ago (1980), where the cost for a round (after 3 p.m.) was only $2.50. The Mayor shot 70 that day, Farley just under 100 (
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Apollo 15 checklist, Armstrong notes at auction
Concord :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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N.H. (AP) A lunar dust-coated checklist worn by one astronaut's trip to the moon and handwritten notes by Neil Armstrong are among more than 600 items of space and aviation memorabilia being offered by a New Hampshire auction house. The spiral-bound,
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JFK Library to display Shepard's space capsule
Boston :: MA :: USA | 8 months ago
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Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is opening an exhibit of the first U.S. manned space capsule. Freedom 7, going on display Wednesday, was piloted by Alan Shepard. The New Hampshire native made a 15-minute suborbital flight in 1961. The capsule
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Freedom 7 space capsule to be displayed at JFK Library
Boston :: MA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston come from across the globe. But today a famous visitor arrived that has spent time in outer space. The library announced that Freedom 7, the Mercury space capsule that Alan B. Shepard Jr. rode on the
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Space pioneer helped launch America to the moon
Titusville :: FL :: USA | 11 months ago
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June 15, 2012 As a kid, Sam Beddingfield saved his money to pay for flying lessons, thrilled by the speed and the notion of flight. That boy, who loved "just being up in the air," went on to become an engineer who helped launch the nation into space.
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Neil Armstrong's Corvette which he bought in special deal to attract astronauts set to fetch over $250,000 in eBay auction
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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The blue coupe remained locked in a garage for more than 20 years before being purchased by its current owner this February. While the three-owner car once driven by the first man to walk on the surface of the moon is now barely running, most of its
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Glenn Flight Marks 50th
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Fla. John Glenn fever has taken hold of Cape Canaveral once again. Three days before the 50th anniversary of his historic flight, the first American to orbit the Earth addressed employees at Kennedy Space Center . Friday with hundreds of workers,
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NASA celebrates 50-years of USA’s journey into Space
It was on 20th February 1962 that astronaut John Glenn circled the Earth thrice in the Friendship-7 capsule – that heralded the entry of the USA into the space race. The 90-year old astronaut along with fellow
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Jewish Ideas Daily: Mensch in the moon
Berlin :: MD :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Handout This article was first published by Jewish Ideas Daily ( www.jewishideasdaily.com ) and is reprinted with permission. Right now there are two Americans aboard the International Space Station, and their only way home is to hitch a ride in the
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John Glenn fever gripping Cape Canaveral _ again
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Fla. (AP) — John Glenn fever has taken hold of Cape Canaveral once again. Three days before the 50th anniversary of his historic flight, the first American to orbit the Earth addressed employees at Kennedy Space Center. Friday
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