Topic: Space Shuttle Atlantis
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In Pictures: Timeline of American rockets
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The 9 weirdest things ever flown on the Space Shuttle
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In Pictures: Atlantis: The final mission
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In Pictures: Coming back to Earth
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Space shuttle Endeavour's L.A. journey subject of beautiful time-lapse video
The amazing time-lapse view of Endeavour's L.A. street journey, which ran from Friday to late Sunday, was created by a team of photographers organized by Matthew Givot
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Space shuttle Endeavour piggybacks on 747 for last leg of Calif. journey (+video)
Today, Endeavour and its carrier plane, called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, will soar over Austin and refuel at Biggs Army Base in El Paso, Texas, before continuing west toward California.
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Space shuttle Endeavour makes layover in Houston, next stop L.A. (+video)
Endeavour landed in Houston while riding piggyback atop a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet to end the first leg of its three-day journey to Los Angeles, where the retired space shuttle will ultimately be transformed into a museum exhibit at the California Science Center.
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Video shows highlights of SpaceX Dragon ISS docking
Dragon is the first US spacecraft to attach to the International Space Station since the end of the Space Shuttle program, in July 2011.
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A year after Space Shuttle's final flight, workers still struggle (+video)
A year after the final flight of the Atlantis marked the end of NASA's Space Shuttle program, thousands of engineers and other workers who helped make the program possible are still looking for decent work.
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Alan Poindexter dies: Space community mourns NASA astronaut
Alan Poindexter dies: NASA and astronauts around the world remember the former US Navy Captain and NASA astronaut as a man who 'proudly served his country for 26 years'.
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Ex-NASA astronaut killed in jet ski accident
Alan Poindexter, a former US Navy captain and two-time shuttle astronaut, died in a jet ski accident in Pensacola, Florida, NASA said.
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Toting a fake Space Shuttle nose, NASA's 'Super Guppy' touches down in Seattle
A reporter shares his first-hand flight experience aboard NASA's Super Guppy, designed for carrying massive payloads.
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Space shuttle Enterprise takes final flight to New York (+video)
The space shuttle Enterprise flew atop a jet airliner bound for New York on Friday, where it will go on display later this year.
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How do they remove the Space Shuttle Discovery from its carrier aircraft?
Very carefully.
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Space Shuttle Discovery lands, for the last time, in Washington, D.C. (+video)
After saluting the nations capital from atop a modified jumbo jet, the Space Shuttle Discovery touched down at Dulles International Airport to be handed over to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
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Grounded space shuttles find new homes
NASA's retired space shuttle orbiters are making their way to museums around the country.
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NASA: Record number of astronaut applicants, but no spaceships
The space agency received more than 6,300 applications between Nov. 15 and Jan. 27 during the search for new astronauts – making it second-highest turnout ever and double the normal response, NASA officials said.
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In Pictures: Timeline of American rockets
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String of accidents could leave International Space Station without crew
When the International Space Station's crew departs this fall, the station could be left unmanned. Flights there have been halted until the cause of last week's space freighter crash is determined.
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Russian spacecraft falls from the sky. Is the International Space Station in trouble?
The second embarrassing loss of a Russian space vehicle in a week spells trouble for Russia's space program and its ability to maintain the International Space Station.
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Space shuttle program ends: Were Americans sad to see it go?
The last space shuttle mission ended Thursday when Atlantis landed, and Americans aren't confident that Obama administration knows where to take human spaceflight next.
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With Atlantis landing, an era ends. Are private space firms ready for duty?
The Atlantis landing just before 6 a.m. Thursday marks the end of the US space shuttle program – and the transition to private firms as the cargo carriers to space. Perhaps they'll ferry people, too.
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Shuttle Atlantis releases tiny satellite before returning to Earth
Shuttle Atlantis put PicoSat, a US military satellite, into orbit Wednesday morning. See video below of space shuttle Atlantis leaving the International Space Station for the last time.
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Atlantis Day 2: Coldplay song evokes bittersweet moment for space shuttle
To NASA workers and shuttle fans, Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" as Atlantis's Saturday wakeup call was a wistful tribute to a vehicle that has been the leading symbol of America's space program.
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Space shuttle Atlantis carries some curious cargo: two iPhones
Space, the final frontier. These are smart phones of the space shuttle Atlantis. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new apps and to boldly go where no iPhone has gone before.
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Final shuttle mission: Who'll supply the International Space Station now?
Atlantis and its four-member crew, in the final mission of the space shuttle program, shrugged off concerns about the weather and took off for one last supply run to the International Space Station.
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The 9 weirdest things ever flown on the Space Shuttle
When NASA's space shuttles launch into orbit, they don't just carry astronauts and supplies into the final frontier. There's a lot of other weird stuff that makes the out-of-this-world journey, too. NASA's last space shuttle mission will launch Friday, July 8 on the Atlantis orbiter to deliver spare parts to the International Space Station. The mission will be the 135th and last flight for the program, which began in 1981. But over the course of 30 years, the space shuttles have flown some peculiar objects into orbit. The list of odd stuff that flew aboard the shuttles is a long one, and includes the Olympic torch, a replica of the golden spike from the First Transcontinental Railroad, and rocks from the top of Mount Everest and the surface of the moon, just to name a few. Here nine recent space oddities carried into orbit on NASA shuttles:
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In Pictures: Atlantis: The final mission
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Atlantis launch successful, historic final shuttle mission underway
Atlantis launch: Despite a bleak forecast of thunderstorms and clouds, the shuttle beat the weather in a stunning midday launch, sailing into the sky on one final voyage.
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