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Lightning Strikes Behind Shuttle Endeavour in Spectacular Photos Space.com A barrage of thunderstorms and lightning in Florida created a spectacular backdrop for the space shuttle Endeavour late Thursday in striking photos taken on the eve of the spacecraft's final launch. The stunning snapshots show Endeavour atop the ... See all stories on this topic » Space.com

Head of Russia space agency Roscosmos replaced BBC News Russia has replaced the head of its space agency, Anatoly Perminov, who was reprimanded over a failed satellite launch in December. Russia lost three satellites when a rocket crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin removed Mr ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Royal wedding: International Space Station astronauts send congratulations Telegraph.co.uk Astronauts aboard the International Space Station sent Prince William and Kate Middleton a zero-gravity message of congratulations on their marriage. The three flight engineers recorded a video message 220 miles above London in which they said they ... See all stories on this topic »

BC-US--Space Shuttle, 2nd Ld,0134 WEAR (AP) -- NASA is fueling space shuttle Endeavour for one last ride into orbit. The launch team began loading more than a half-million gallons of fuel into Endeavour, moments after royal wedding vows were exchanged across the ocean. ... See all stories on this topic »

Shelton students' experiment heading for space MiamiHerald.com A science experiment compiled by a team of Connecticut students is ready for its trip into space on the shuttle Endeavor. Five seniors from Shelton High School are visiting Florida to witness Friday afternoon's planned launch of Endeavor at Kennedy ... See all stories on this topic »

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Space Adventures Plans Tourism Missions Around the Moon (for Just ... By Clay Dillow If you've got a lust for space travel, a desire to go where only a couple of dozen people have gone before, and $150 million to spare, Space Adventures needs you. The space tourism company--it's the one that organizes the ISS trips via ... Popular Science - Technology - http://www.popsci.com/taxonomy/term/3/0

NewsFlash: Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space of Milky Way 30 ... By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they're still working. And with each passing day they are beaming back a messages any one... The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries... - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/

Squid in space : Pharyngula By PZ Myers none@example.com The last mission of the space shuttle will contain a student-initiated experiment: a collection of bobtail squid embryos will be launched into space. Which is cool, I suppose. I like squid, I like space, I like science, I like student. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science - http://scienceblogs.com/channel/life-science/

Daily TWiP - Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist today in ... Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn 't. Nashuatelegraph.com: Local News,... - http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/

Second-to-last Space Shuttle launch is big tourism draw | Gadling.com By Sean McLachlan Tomorrow's launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour has turned into a major tourist event, the Associated Press reports. NASA estimates half a millio. Gadling - http://www.gadling.com/

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Space shuttle launch Friday will be last for Endeavour Christian Science Monitor Space shuttle launch: the US space shuttle Endeavour will launch for the last time on Friday, drawing an estimated 750000 spectators from all over the country. Space shuttle launch: Space shuttle Endeavour is prepared for launch at the Kennedy Space ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Friday shuttle launch drawing sky-high interest The Tennessean Giffords will attend her husband's space shuttle launch in Florida on Friday, Kelly said, allowing the Arizona congresswoman to travel for the first time since she was flown from Tucson to Houston more than three months ago to recover from a gunshot ... See all stories on this topic »

With new map, the 6th District occupies a lot of space News-Press Now Check the oil and air the tires. The backroads just got longer in representing Missouri's 6th Congressional District. When the General Assembly approved a new map of US House boundaries on Wednesday night, the district that includes St. Joseph and ... See all stories on this topic »

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Astronauts look at past, future of space travel USA Today By Donna Leinwand Leger, USA TODAY KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — As the countdown clock ticks toward the last mission of the shuttle Endeavor today and the final mission of NASA's shuttle program in June, astronauts say they are nostalgic about the ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

In Florida, thousands flock to see liftoff that brings end to jobs closer Houston Chronicle Hundreds of campers, RVs and tents began to swarm beaches and causeways here Thursday with hundreds of thousands of observers expected to join them, bringing a surge of excitement about today's space shuttle launch to a region bracing for the end of an ... See all stories on this topic » Houston Chronicle

A Shuttle Town's Boom and Bust New York Times Sometime Friday afternoon in front of the Village Inn, where photographs of past space shuttle crews hang in the dining room, drivers will abandon their cars up and down Route 1, the main street of Titusville, Fla. Shortly before 4 pm, all eyes will ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama to Watch Shuttle Launch as Space Coast Sees Jobs Lost BusinessWeek By Hans Nichols April 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is set to bid a personal farewell to America's manned space shuttle at Cape Canaveral today, as Florida's "space coast" prepares to say goodbye to thousands of NASA jobs in a state crucial ... See all stories on this topic »

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EXCLUSIVE: A Mighty Endeavour: Designing the Space Shuttle Fox News Woolhouse was on the shuttle's original design team, helping NASA craft the space taxi nearly 40 years ago. Today, he works as the program manager of shuttle orbiter development at Boeing, where he oversees 300 engineers. But he remembers clearly the ... See all stories on this topic »

Staffers who survived AZ shooting to go to launch The Associated Press Gabrielle Giffords watches her astronaut husband get launched into space on Friday, two of her staff members who also survived the Tucson mass shooting will be there, too, thinking about how far they've all come in less than four months. ... See all stories on this topic »

Excitement builds for next-to-last space shuttle launch with Rep. Giffords ... The Canadian Press On the eve of the next-to-last space shuttle launch, thousands of people streamed to the region for a chance to watch Friday's fiery spectacle. Adding to the fever-pitch excitement: The first-ever visit by an entire presidential family. ... See all stories on this topic » The Canadian Press

Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space NASA This labeled artist's concept shows NASA's two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun. After more than 33 years of travel, the two Voyager ... See all stories on this topic » NASA

Tornadoes knock out power to Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center Nextgov The power outage and center's subsequent closure will not affect the launch of the space shuttle Endeavor planned for Friday. Emily Smith, a NASA spokeswoman at the Kennedy Space Flight Center in Florida, said the "shuttle mission is still a go" ... See all stories on this topic »

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NASA's Youngest Shuttle: The Historic Endeavors of Space Shuttle Endeavour Space.com Twenty years after exiting its assembly facility for its maiden mission, space shuttle Endeavour is poised on the launch pad to fly its final flight. NASA's youngest orbiter, born from a tragedy, Endeavour made its debut on April 25, 1991, ... See all stories on this topic »

Ten years of space tourism (images) CNET With this launch, on April 28, 2001, the world of space travel changed forever. On that day ten years ago, wealthy engineer Dennis Tito became the first-ever private space tourist, flying aboard a Russian Soyuz FG rocket, in this case the Soyuz TM-32. ... See all stories on this topic »

Next-generation US space racers outline plans AFP WASHINGTON — A handful of companies competing to make the spaceship to replace the iconic US shuttle said Thursday they are racing to shrink what will be a long gap in flying Americans into space aboard US craft. Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

See the storms from space msnbc.com The NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. creates images and animations from the GOES satellite data. John Roach is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by hitting the "like" ... See all stories on this topic »

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Voyager Spacecraft Will Soon Enter Interstellar Space By Nancy Atkinson After 33 years, NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are still actively working – gathering information, communicating with Earth, (and Tweeting!), and they are about to go where no space probe has gone before: into interstellar space. Universe Today - http://www.universetoday.com/

Exposures » Blog Archive » TRANSCENDENCE: Photographs by Space ... By Aperture Magazine On April 29th and the eve of first 50 years of American human space flight, NASA will fly its second to last space shuttle mission – STS 134 Endeavour. Several years earlier however, I had unprecedented access to document the crew, ... Exposures - http://www.aperture.org/exposures/

Space Politics » FAA commercial space budget hearing and a policy ... The space subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is holding a hearing next Thursday, May 5, on the FY2012 budget request of the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST). ... Space Politics - http://www.spacepolitics.com/

The World's Biggest Space Experiment Launches Tomorrow, Ready to ... By Rebecca Boyle The ultra-sensitive Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will hunt for the nature of matter. Popular Science - Technology - http://www.popsci.com/taxonomy/term/3/0

Baby Squid To Orbit Earth Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour's Last Flight By EDW Lynch Baby squids will rocket into space aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour's last flight, and the penultimate flight of the shuttle program (STS-134 scheduled for tomorrow.) The squid embryos will be onboard thanks to a University of Florida ... Laughing Squid - http://laughingsquid.com/

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