On these pages you'll find astronomy news from a variety of specific sources rather than general astronomy news.
Each page (from the menu below) shows up-to-date news from the specific resource.
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| Space Shuttle News
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29 Aug 2010 at 9:00pm
 NASA is revisiting the question of what rocket to build next and whether solid motors will be part of it.
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16 Aug 2010 at 9:00pm
With a replacement cooling pump successfully installed, the International Space Station?s electrical systems were largely expected to be returned to the usual configuration by Aug. 17.
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8 Aug 2010 at 9:00pm
 Mary Roach?s book ?Packing for Mars? delights in the fringe material associated with astronauts? life in space.
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3 Aug 2010 at 9:00pm
 If the International Space Station were ever abandoned, the United States? human spaceflight program would lose one of its last remaining reasons for being.
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31 May 2010 at 9:00pm
With a train?s delivery of solid-fuel booster segments to Florida, the program has just two trips left.
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26 May 2010 at 9:00pm
 The spacecraft wrapped up a 25-year career after 32 missions covering 120 million miles.
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17 May 2010 at 9:00pm
Photo of astronauts on Atlantis taking pictures in order to preserve images of shuttle's final mission
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14 May 2010 at 9:00pm
 The space shuttle Atlantis vaulted into orbit on a 12-day space station assembly mission, the orbiter?s 32nd and final planned flight after a quarter century of service.
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23 Apr 2010 at 9:00pm
A key component of a spectrometer destined for the International Space Station needs to be replaced and won?t be ready for a planned mission in July.
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20 Apr 2010 at 9:00pm
The space shuttle Discovery closed out a complex space station resupply mission with a landing in Florida.
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| Space Shuttle Resources
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Return To Flight
NASA's official site about the Shuttle's return to flight. Contains recent news updates and many videos of the return to flight preparations.
Return To Flight Task Group
On June 13, 2003 the NASA Administrator appointed two veteran astronauts to lead an external task group in an independent assessment of the agency's Return to Flight efforts and to help the nation return the Space Shuttle safely to flight. This site documents their work.
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