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Flight Readiness Review Under Way At Kennedy

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 - 14:31:59 - Anuradha Menon

Officials are gathered today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the agency-level Flight Readiness Review, or FRR, where they'll verify...

Discovery Lands Safely at Kennedy
Friday, April 23rd, 2010 - Anuradha Menon
Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a two-week journey of more than 6.2 million miles with a Tuesday morning...

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Discovery Crew Lands Safely in California

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 - 09:01:31 - Anuradha Menon

Space shuttle Discovery touched down at Edwards Air Force Base In California on Friday to end a 14-day mission to the International Space Station...

Discovery Lands on Thursday

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 - 09:02:03 - Anuradha Menon

On Wednesday, space shuttle Discovery's crew will peform the Flight Control System checkout and the Reaction Control System hot-fire. Landing is...

Endeavour Crew Celebrates Smooth Landing

Saturday, August 1st, 2009 - 09:01:30 - Anuradha Menon

Space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven astronauts touched down at 10:48 a.m. EDT at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bringing an end to a...

Endeavour Set to Land on Friday

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 - 09:01:47 - Anuradha Menon

The crew was awakened at 2:03 a.m. EDT to the sounds of “I Got You Babe,” performed by Sonny and Cher. The song was a special request for Koichi...

We Choose the Moon
Monday, July 20th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo...

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Astronauts Prepare for First Spacewalk

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 - 10:39:41 - Anuradha Menon

The joint crew of space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station awakened at 7:03 a.m. EDT to the strains of “Home,” by Marc Broussard...

US Shuttle Endeavour Lifts Off Finally

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 - 12:14:56 - Anuradha Menon

The US space shuttle Endeavour has soared into orbit on a mission to install a Japanese-built porch for science experiments on the International...

Endeavour Set to Launch on Wednesday

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - 09:05:45 - Anuradha Menon

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour is being prepped for a new opportunity to launch on its STS-127 mission. Liftoff...

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