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Space News May 24, 2011

NASA Art Exhibit Opens At National Air And Space Museum

WASHINGTON — You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an astronaut to work for NASA. Engineers, pilots, physicists, astrobiologists, and, yes, artists, too,…

Space News May 23, 2011

NASA releases space walk photos of Endeavour mission

NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, STS-134 mission specialist, is pictured outside the Qwest airlock during the mission’s first spacewalk from the International Space Station in this…

Space News May 20, 2011

Final Space Shuttle Flight July 8 2011

WASHINGTON — NASA’s final space shuttle flight is targeted to launch July 8 at about 11:40 a.m. EDT from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in…

Space News May 19, 2011

AMS: ready to discover the particle universe

The largest and most complex scientific instrument yet to be fitted to the International Space Station was installed today. Taken into space by the Space…

Space News May 18, 2011

Endeavour docks with Space Station

Space Shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station today at 12:14 CEST (10:14 GMT) after chasing it in space following a textbook launch on…

Space News May 16, 2011

NASA’s Shuttle Endeavour Heads To Space Station On Its Final Mission

Space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…

Space News May 13, 2011

Mars Science Laboratory Aeroshell Delivered To Launch Site

Lockheed Martin-Built Capsule Will Protect NASAâ€™s Curiosity Rover DENVER, May 13th, 2011 — NASAâ€™s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) aeroshell and cruise stage were delivered to…

Space News May 11, 2011

NASA Dawn Spacecraft Captures First Image Of Nearing Asteroid

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn expects to achieve…

Civilian aviation news, Space News May 10, 2011

Europeâ€™s first EGNOS airport to guide down giant Beluga aircraft

Pau PyrÃ©nÃ©es in southern France has become Europeâ€™s first airport to use the new EGNOS Safety-of-Life Service, to guide aircraft in for landing using only…

Space News May 10, 2011

NASA Sets May 16 For Final Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch

NASA managers have set the liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour for 8:56 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 16. Launch attempts are available through May 26,…

Space News May 5, 2011

50th anniversary of United States human spaceflight

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement Thursday, May 5, about the 50th anniversary of United States human spaceflight: “50 years ago…

Space News May 4, 2011

SpaceShipTwo’s First “Feathered” Flight

Marks Latest Milestone for Virgin Galactic. Early on Wednesday 4th May 2011, in the skies above Mojave Air and Spaceport CA, SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first…

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