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Mar 9, 2012 04:46 PM ET // Alice Truong
Oaida Raul, a teenager in Romania, said he has always been inspired by spaceflight, but the only space program he cold afford was a LEGO shuttle. He decided to undertake an "October Sky" project of his own, which involved a high-altitude balloon lifting a LEGO space shuttle and a GoPro camera to ca...
Jun 1, 2011 08:48 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
Mexico had a beautiful view of the shuttle's historic reentry, 40 miles overhead.
May 16, 2011 05:55 AM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
When Endeavour launches, it will deliver three of prototype microchip mini-satellites to the space station for testing.
Feb 4, 2010 07:48 PM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
It's been a good long while since the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air a few minutes after launch on January 28, 1986, killing all the astronauts (and one schoolteacher) aboard. Now some new homemade footage of the crash has surfaced, taken by a man named Jack Moss as he watched the shu...
Nov 21, 2009 05:26 AM ET // Irene Klotz
Depressurization and smoke alarms woke the shuttle and station crews for a second consecutive night on Friday. Flight controllers quickly determined they were false alarms, but the station's ventilation system automatically shut down, prompting NASA to cancel spacewalk preparations inside a low-pre...
Nov 21, 2009 01:12 PM ET // Ray Villard
The simmering debate over the future direction of our nation's human space flight program hit even more air turbulence over the past couple weeks. On the cusp of the Augustine Report on NASA's future space flight plans (that was delivered to the White House last month to await a presidential decisi...
May 26, 2010 03:36 PM ET // Irene Klotz
Amateur astronomers have glimpsed beneath a cloak of secrecy shrouding the military's miniature robotic space shuttle, which was launched last month on a trial run.
Apr 18, 2010 06:28 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
Space Shuttle Discovery will do a rare flyover of a large swathe of North America on Monday morning. But don't underestimate the double-sonic boom the shuttle will make during the flyover, it might wake you up.
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