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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... read more

Hubble Reawakens, Photos Jupiter's Scar Saturday, July 25th, 2009 - 14:53:21 - Anuradha Menon In an unusual step, NASA scientists interrupted testing of the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to aim the orbiter's camera at Jupiter and capture... read more

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... read more

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... read more

Endeavour Set For Saturday Launch Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 - 18:46:02 - Anuradha Menon The countdown to launch of space shuttle Endeavour on its STS-127 mission officially began at 9 a.m. today as countdown clocks began counting... read more

Russia Capsule Blasts off for Space Station Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 - 10:28:07 - Anuradha Menon Three astronauts have blasted off for the International Space Station, where they are set to raise the station's crew to six for the first time... read more

Astronauts Let Hubble Go Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 - 16:39:40 - Anuradha Menon Practicing a kind of catch-and-release astronomy, the astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis oh-so-gently let the Hubble Space Telescope slip back... read more

Marathon Spacewalk Gives Hubble New Life Saturday, May 16th, 2009 - 10:23:51 - Anuradha Menon Astronaut Michael Massimino, floating inside the Hubble Space Telescope, and fellow spacewalker Michael "Bueno" Good, on the end of the shuttle... read more

Atlantis Set for Monday Launch to Hubble Thursday, May 7th, 2009 - 10:23:24 - Anuradha Menon Final prelaunch operations are under way at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as workers at Launch Pad 39A prepare space shuttle Atlantis for... read more

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