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Orlando Sentinel - Thu Dec 3, 12:27 am ET
WASHINGTON — A congressional hearing on astronaut safety turned into a pep rally for NASA's troubled Constellation moon-rocket program, with lawmakers and witnesses endorsing it as the best replacement for the space shuttle even as critics complained the hearing was one-sided.
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SpaceRef - Wed Dec 2, 8:32 pm ET
House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Examines Ways to Make Human Space Flight Safer
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Fox News - Wed Dec 2, 9:01 am ET
A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but was far enough away that outpost's two-man crew did not have to strap into their lifeboat to wait out the close shave, NASA officials said.
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redOrbit - Wed Dec 2, 6:06 pm ET
Image Caption: This is a comparison of NOGAPS synoptic weather fields for 82 km for 18 UT (Universal Time) on June 13, 2007. Shown are maps of (a) temperature, (b) abundance of water vapor (parts per million by volume) and (c) resultant saturation (proportional to relative humidity). Values greater than 1 represent super saturated air. The three red dots are locations of ice clouds observed by ...
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SPACE.com - Wed Dec 2, 3:03 pm ET
NASA spent roughly $570 million of its $1 billion in stimulus funds, with nearly half of those dollars going toward its embattled Constellation program.
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CNN - Tue Dec 1, 4:04 pm ET
A piece of space debris is not expected to pose any danger to the two crew members aboard the international space station, a NASA spokesman said Tuesday.
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SpaceRef - Wed Dec 2, 4:32 pm ET
Opening Statement By Chairwoman Gabrielle Giffords
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St. Tammany News - Thu Dec 3, 2:00 am ET
Tracy Buras of Bush, a service engineer with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne at John C. Stennis Space Center, was recognized recently by NASA’s Space Flight Awareness Program for outstanding support of human space flight.
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St. Tammany News - Thu Dec 3, 2:00 am ET
NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center employee Justin Junell of Slidell received the prestigious Silver Snoopy award Oct. 22 during a special ceremony held in conjunction with the Stennis Health and Safety Day.
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The Miami Hurricane - Wed Dec 2, 7:38 pm ET
“Oh, my God.” That was the reaction of most of us to the news Tuesday that Challenger, the second of the four space shuttles in the NASA program, had exploded in midair, 74 seconds and 10 miles into what would have been its tenth mission into space.
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The Bay Area Citizen - Wed Dec 2, 2:28 pm ET
As of Dec. 1, four Painted Lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station.
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MSNBC - Tue Dec 1, 8:33 pm ET
A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but was far enough away the crew didn’t have to strap into their lifeboat to wait out the close shave.
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The Arab Tribune - Wed Dec 2, 10:59 am ET
Chris Traylor and Brad Perkins, both 1977 graduates of Arab High School, recently received NASA Space Flight Awareness awards. Jeff Leak of Arab was a third local recipient of the award.
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The Aero-News Network - Thu Dec 3, 5:06 am ET
Student Insect Experiment Arrived On Atlantis As of Monday, four painted lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station. These "butterflynauts" are part of an educational experiment that was launched November 16 on space shuttle Atlantis and transferred to the Space Station.
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The Scranton Times-Tribune - Tue Dec 1, 4:28 am ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown Friday to end an "amazing" flight that resupplied the International Space Station. Within a few hours of landing, the astronauts feasted on t