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NASA seeks to lease or sell space shuttle facilities
Orlando :: FL :: USA | 4 months ago
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The last shuttle flight was in July 2011, when Atlantis made its final touchdown. That orbiter, like its sisters Discovery and Endeavour, is now a museum piece. As soon as some remaining cleanup is finished at Kennedy Space Center , the shuttle
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Space shuttle Endeavour exhibit opens at Calfornia Science Center
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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After a nearly two-decade career rocketing through Earth's atmosphere and ferrying astronauts into space, Endeavour begins its final mission on Tuesday as the centerpiece of a long-awaited museum exhibit paying homage to California's aerospace
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FGCU to display space shuttle artifacts
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 7 months ago
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Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla...The artifacts include shuttle tiles and computer hardware that will be displayed in a full exhibit next March. The school had to compete with other organizations to
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Swing state: Waning support for NASA workers leaves Space Coast's vote up in the air
Titusville :: FL :: USA | 7 months ago
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On the campaign trail, his words couldn't have been clearer: "Here's what I'm committing to: Continue Constellation."...The Constellation Program was scrapped with Obama's blessing in 2010, resulting in more than 7,000 layoffs at the Kennedy Space
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Charting space shuttle history on the Southland map
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Hennigan, Los Angeles Times Look hard and the ghosts of the nation's 40-year-old space shuttle program can be found hidden in plain sight across Southern California. They inhabit a sprawling, virtually lifeless building in Canoga Park, where an army
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Some shuttle diplomacy helped bring the Endeavour to L.A.
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 8 months ago
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Three shuttles orbited Earth regularly, and a fourth, Endeavour, had just rolled off a Palmdale production line...The space agency planned to use the shuttles for many years, perhaps decades...Phillips, aerospace curator of the California Science
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This concept art from the Shuttle Program's early days is gorgeous, deliciously retro [Concept Art]
Date :: Japan | 8 months ago
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Images , for it was there that we found an awe-inspiring assortment of concept illustrations and models from the Shuttle Program's infancy (including preliminary sketches for the 747 "piggyback" method of shuttle transport). We've included a sampling
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Space Shuttle Endeavour's final flight a thrill
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
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And we raised our cameras to capture an Instagram for the ages. In a giant undulating farewell wave stretching from Sacramento to Los Angeles, spectators raised their hands in applause, their voices in cheers and their phones and cameras to capture
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Rocketdyne Center in Canoga Park That Supported Shuttle Engines to Join Exhibit
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 8 months ago
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A little-known but critical San Fernando Valley role in the space shuttle program is taking its place in history. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, which designed and built the shuttle's main engines, has donated its Rocketdyne Operations Support Center to
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Jobs picture brightens on Florida's Space Coast
Titusville :: FL :: USA | 9 months ago
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Brian Medeiros was driving a Budweiser beer truck when he got a phone call saying he'd been offered an aerospace-industry job 15 months after his position at the U.S. space shuttle program was eliminated. He pulled over and sobbed in relief. "I
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