Skylab
The 100-ton Skylab was America's first experimental space station, and the only one the United States deployed in the first three decades of human spaceflight. The National Aeronautics a...
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In labs at Johnson Space Center, away from the buzz about NASA's new spaceship and its new missions to the moon and Mars, a group of engineers are plodding away at another piece of the puzzle: spac...
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Today is Thursday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2007. There are 326 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in Englan...
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Today is Monday, May 14, the 134th day of 2007. There are 231 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Four hundred years ago, on May 14, 1607, English colonists went ashore in Virginia t...
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Today is Wednesday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2007. There are 173 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Sec...
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The son of a retired astronaut is about to follow his father into orbit, after buying a $30 million ticket for a seat on a Russian rocket.Richard Garriott, who made his fortune in computer games, i...
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A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or early March, government officials said Saturday.The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain...
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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2007. There are 97 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Sept. 25, 1957, nine black students forced to withdraw from Ce...
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The route to the moon and perhaps to Mars now goes through New Orleans — and the detour couldn't come at a better time in the city's struggle to rebuild its shattered economy after Hurricane ...
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Skylab
NASA engineers work on new spacesuits
