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Here's how NASA gets a shuttle ready to fly

Atlantis moved to its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral ... Atlantis' four astronauts were on hand at the event to address members of the media and enjoy the historic milestone. Shuttle program employees were once again invited to ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43396328/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/heres-how-n...

Why sign up for a one-way Mars trip? Three applicants explain the appeal

A one-way trip to Mars sounds like something you'd wish on your worst enemy — so why would more than 78,000 people from around the world pay up to $75 for a chance to die on another planet? "I can say I have an ulterior motive," said David ...http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/19/18305415-why-sign-up-for-a-one-way...

Unplanned Spacewalk a 'Precedent-Setting' Move for Space Station Crew

STS-51D crew members David Griggs and Jeff Hoffman didn't know they would be going outside the space shuttle Discovery when they launched on a mission to deploy two communication satellites. But when the second of the two satellites' motors failed to kick ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51852817/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/unplanned-s...

Canadian Astronaut Julie Payette Assuming New Challenges

As a mission specialist, Julie Payette flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery from May 27 to June 6, 1999 on STS-96. During the mission, the crew performed the first manual docking of the Shuttle and delivered four tons of supplies to the International Space ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51818717/ns/business-press_releases/t/canadian-astrona...

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Space Shuttle Discovery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Updated May. 18, 2013

Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery

Welcome Space Shuttle Discovery! - Smithsonian National Air and ...

Updated May. 18, 2013

Welcome, Discovery! Discovery is now in its new permanent home, the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. During the Welcome Discovery ...http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/discovery/

Shuttle Discovery rides piggyback into posterity - Technology ...

Updated May. 11, 2013

WASHINGTON — Sitting on top of a modified Boeing 747 jet, the shuttle Discovery made a sentimental journey on Tuesday, visiting its old haunts in Florida as well as ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47070577/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/shuttle-dis...

NASA - Space Shuttle

Updated May. 19, 2013

NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, ... the space shuttle pushed the bounds of discovery ever farther, ...http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html