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Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?
And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...
NASA Confirms 70-Year-Old Astronaut Don Pettit Is Doing Well Despite Looking Frail After Landing
NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space ...
From spatulas to gloves: 8 of the weirdest space debris items
Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech ...
Time-Lapse Of Space Shuttle Endeavour Stacked
Time-lapse of Space Shuttle Endeavour stacked with an external tank and pair of solid rocket boosters for a exhibit at the ...
Who is Don Pettit? NASA’s 70-year-old ‘Space Grandpa’ who just came home after 220 days in orbit
NASA’s oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, has returned safely to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the ISS, landing ...
Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit returns to Earth on 70th birthday
Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...
The truth about the unhinged £5million reality TV show where ordinary men and women were 'trained to go into space' - and the shocking impact it had on its conte…
Space Cadets pretended to send a group of participants into orbit from a 'Russian bootcamp', which was actually an airbase in ...
As a kid, she put her hero, Sally Ride, on a mural at school. Now she’s made a documentary about her
Milwaukee filmmaker Cristina Costantini’s “Sally” reveals groundbreaking astronaut Sally Ride as a complex hero, and human.
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Maserati supercar with no driver breaks autonomous speed record at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Revving up to extreme speed, the Maserati MC20 screamed just shy of the 200-mph barrier while zooming down the center of NASA's old space shuttle landing strip — with nobody in the driver's seat.
First Black Woman in Space Schools CBS News Anchor
Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to go into space, was not amused by comments made by a CBS News host on Monday morning ...
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Don Pettitt: The cosmic craftsman who blended science with soul
NASA astronaut Donald R. Pettit, a record holder for the longest time spent in space, redefined space exploration, zero gravity, and astrophotography ...