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NASA's Kennedy Space Center is located in Brevard County on Florida's east coast. KSC is one of 10 NASA centers and serves as America's Spaceport. Space shuttle launches are visible for miles around and draw thousands of visitors. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers tours, exhibits and even lunch with an astronaut.
NASA's Kennedy Space Center is located in Brevard County on Florida's east coast. KSC is one of 10 NASA centers and serves as America's Spaceport. Space shuttle launches are visible for miles around and draw thousands of visitors. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers tours, exhibits and even lunch with an astronaut.
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Is there life on Mars?
Is there life elsewhere in the universe? It's a question that has long intrigued astronomers and science fiction buffs alike, and now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched its most ambitious attempt yet to find the answer....Tags: Science Fiction (genre), Fiction, Space Programs, NASA, Astronomy
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The shuttle's final flight
The scheduled touchdown of the space shuttle Atlantis Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida marks the end of a 30-year era in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. The space shuttle Columbia first flew in 1981, and since then the National...Tags: Rocketry, Retirement, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Space Programs, NASA
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Catch ISS and Endeavour in Baltimore pass
Maryland WeatherIf skies are clear overnight, Marylanders may be able to catch the International Space Station and the shuttle Endeavour as they fly almost directly over Baltimore. It may be the last chance any of us ever gets to see a......Tags: Space Programs
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Last launch of Discovery
Maryland WeatherI remembered the belching, billowing smoke at liftoff. I remembered the towering pillar of smoke as the shuttle climbs toward orbit. And I remembered suppressing the fear that something might go wrong.But as my son and I watched Discovery's launch......Tags: Cape Canaveral, Space Programs, Traffic, NASA, Rentals
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40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar mission
On July 16, 1969 the crew of Apollo 11 blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the historic quest to put the first men on the moon.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of this achievement, Sun photographer Karl Merton Ferron acquired...Tags: Maryland Science Center, Space Programs, NASA, Facebook, Neil Armstrong
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Fay stalls, drowns Florida
Maryland WeatherYou can say what you want about the way the news media hype tropical systems that never really grow into 'dangerous' hurricanes. But Fay is a good example of why we can't afford to ignore the little storms.Although it never......Tags: Meteorological Disasters, Disasters, Tropical Storms, Natural Disasters, Hurricanes
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Workers celebrate 'return to flight'
Sun StaffGREENBELT -- It happened again. A NASA space shuttle lifted off from Cape Canaveral yesterday morning, and tears pooled in Bruce Schneck's eyes. "Every time we fly, I well up," confessed Schneck, 52, a Baltimore native and Honeywell Technology...Tags: Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Space Programs, Health and Safety at Work, Honeywell International Incorporated, Wallops Island (Accomack, Virginia)
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At last, shuttle returns to space
Los Angeles TimesKENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - With the thunderous roar of 7.5 million pounds of thrust, equivalent to the power of a small nuclear device, America re-launched its era of space flight yesterday, sending seven astronauts into orbit aboard the space shuttle...Tags: Laura Bush, Space Programs, Los Angeles Times, Technology, Arts
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Goddard workers celebrate mission
Sun StaffIn the minutes before the shuttle Discovery landed at a California air base, just before the handshakes and sighs of relief, an unaccustomed silence descended on the Flight Dynamics control room at Goddard Space Flight Center. Technicians and engineers...Tags: Space Programs, Health and Safety at Work, Odenton, Air Transportation, Air Transportation Industry
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NASA's chief says flight by Discovery 'magnificent'
Los Angeles TimesHOUSTON - As the slightly damaged orbiter Discovery and its crew began preparations to undock from the International Space Station yesterday, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin defended Discovery's mission, calling it one of the cleanest on record. "It's...Tags: Space Programs, NASA, Los Angeles Times
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Engineers: Analysis minimized danger
Sentinel Staff WriterSpace shuttle mission managers at a key Jan. 24 meeting hastily approved a technical analysis that some shuttle engineers now say overlooked the fatal potential of debris damage to Columbia. The engineers told the Orlando Sentinel that the analysis --...Tags: Space Programs, Metal and Mineral, Health and Safety at Work, Technology, Boeing Co.
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NASA says parts of Columbia's left wing recovered
AP Science WriterSPACE CENTER, Houston -- A wing fragment that may be the most significant piece of Columbia debris found since the space shuttle's disintegration came from the space shuttle's troubled left side, NASA has determined. Monday's finding is important to...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Space Programs, Gaming, Technology, Rocketry
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