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Space Shuttle's Greatest Feat: Redefining the 'Right Stuff' Space.com by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's planned Friday (July 8) launch of the space shuttle Atlantis will be the 135th and final liftoff for the iconic space program since its debut in 1981. That works out to an average of ... See all stories on this topic »

Q&ALast shuttle flight not end for space age, Hadfield says CBC.ca Beginning of Story Content The July 8 liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis will be one for the history books, the last launch of its kind, coming 30 years after Columbia's maiden voyage in 1981. But it's by no means the end of the space age, ... See all stories on this topic »

Chicago's Adler Planetarium rockets tourists into deep space USA Today By Laura Bly, USA TODAY Stormy weather in Florida may be threatening Friday's final space shuttle launch, but visitors to Chicago's lakefront Adler Planetarium - the nation's oldest - needn't worry about Mother Nature to witness the wonders of the ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

SpaceX tries to offer an answer for the future Houston Chronicle (blog) ( Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle ) With questions about the future of human space flight hanging over Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX took the opportunity to send a team to the NASA newsroom Wednesday and whisk busloads of journalists away for guided ... See all stories on this topic » Houston Chronicle (blog)

Challenger space shuttle model to return to Little Tokyo Los Angeles Times Isao Hirai built the one-tenth-scale model of the Challenger space shuttle, which was the centerpiece of a memorial in Little Tokyo for 21 years. The model returns to Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday after four ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Space shuttle retirement sparks disagreement Paducah Sun by AP Associated Press NASA Mission Control founder Chris Kraft stands in the old Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Tuesday. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Jim Lovell, Robert Crippen and others as well as Kraft are pushing ... See all stories on this topic »

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