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Odyssey of Apollo 13 Became NASA’s ‘Successful Failure’
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Apollo 13 lifted-off fifty-years ago on Saturday to begin the third crewed mission to land on the Moon, but quickly became an odyssey of survival in deep…
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Akron Classmates Achieved High-Flying Careers as Astronaut, Blue Angel
AKRON, Ohio — Two high school classmates driven early by different goals found themselves a decade later working in similar career fields — one a top naval aviator and one a NASA…
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Upclose: Two Engineers Discuss Servicing Space Shuttle Atlantis
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s space shuttle fleet served as an orbiting workshop for thirty years — a space truck which delivered a variety of spacecraft and segments of the International Space…
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NASA’s Quieter Supersonic X-59 Approved for Final Assembly
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An experimental NASA aircraft designed to perform supersonic commercial travel while reducing the sound generated by sonic booms was approved for final assembly on Thursday. The X-59, also…
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Step Inside The Space Shuttle In This Awesome 360 Video
NASA’s Space Shuttle is as iconic as baseball for any person older than 10 years old. While there are valid debates about whether the craft ever did live up to…
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Kennedy Space Center’s Visitor Complex Provides the Spaceflight Experience
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Exploring space with top simulators and witnessing the thundering launch of a rocket into Earth orbit and beyond are a few of the highlights designed to…
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NASA X-57 ‘Maxwell’ to Usher in Electric Propulsion Aircraft
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is engineering an all-electric aircraft capable of flying people and cargo great distances as a futuristic, clean-energy concept becomes a reality during the coming decade. NASA’s first…
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Two Americans, One Russian Lift-off to the Space Station
UPDATE: The Soyuz MS-12 craft successfully docked to the space station at 9:01 p.m. EDT. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two Americans and their Russian spacecraft commander launched a top a…
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SpaceX Launches Crew Dragon on Uncrewed Mission to Space Station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A giant leap in launching astronauts from the United States began on Saturday as a commercial rocket lifted off from America’s Space Coast with a space capsule designed…
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NASA Put Their Only C-141 Up For Sale But No One Bought It
Earlier this year, NASA quietly put their derelict Lockheed C-141 up for sale on a GSA Auction website. The aircraft wasn’t just your average Starlifter. It was a specially modified…
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Powered Flight During the 1970s Was More Than Just Awesome
The film “Flying Machines- Powered Flight in the 1970s” was produced for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the days when the airlines were booming and research and…
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