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Why space exploration still matters
As a child, I remember a coloring book that pictured a "Buck Rogers" rocket that looked like a football with three fins at its base. It was my job to give it life by coloring the rocket blast with yellows, oranges and reds that lifted the craft to stellar...Tags: Government, Space Programs, Human Interest, John F. Kennedy, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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NASA space shuttle has roots at Langley
Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, NASA was already planning what would become the space shuttle program.
President Richard Nixon in early 1969 formed the Space Task Group, whose job was to chart the nation’s future in space.
One of the...Tags: Technology, Rocketry, Long Island, Richard Nixon, Science and Technology
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He Had A Dream
KIAHBernard Harris saw his future when he watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. He knew that he wanted to be like them, but it seemed like an impossible dream. He was an African American kid who says he didn't see any astronauts with his...Tags: Minority Groups, Buzz Aldrin, African Americans
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President Obama will attend Carrier Classic
Daily PressSAN DIEGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama will attend the Carrier Classic basketball game on Veterans Day on the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier that buried Osama bin Laden at sea. The White House confirmed Thursday that the nation's basketball-...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Osama bin Laden, ESPN (tv network), Veterans Day, Barack Obama
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Shuttle program opened doors for minorities, women
In 1972, President Nixon gave his blessing to ramp up Apollo's successor, the Space Transportation System (STS). Two years later, work began on the first space shuttle, a test vehicle that NASA planned to christen Constitution.
Those plans changed...Tags: Minority Groups, History, Rocketry, NBC (tv network), Science and Technology
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Shuttle blasts off while NASA Langley watches
George Ware’s cigar stayed in its wrapper — just as it did more than 30 years ago when the space shuttle program took flight.
A retired aerospace engineer, Ware wasn’t ready to celebrate Friday as Atlantis rocketed away from Earth on...Tags: Atlantis, Barack Obama, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Human Interest
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TODAY IN HISTORY
1944: An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters only wounded the Nazi leader. 1958: Margaret Briscoe Hall, a new women's residence hall on the campus...Tags: Adolf Hitler
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5 Things It's Good To Know: Shuttle Farewell, Killer Heatwave, Lion Roars...
FOX 17 Web ProducerApple Launches Lion, And It Roars Today, Apple hopes to continue that roaring pace by trotting out OS X Lion, the eighth major release (in 10 years) of the Mac's OS X operating system. Lion is the successor to Snow Leopard and before that, Leopard. Apple...Tags: Florida, Atlantis, Kennedy Space Center, Space Programs, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Transform your weekend
OPENED TUESDAY
Transformers: Dark of the
Moon
To his credit, director Michael Bay does try to put more human touch into ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon,'' aiming to make up for the clattering mess of overgrown kitchen appliances that duked it out...Tags: Julia Roberts, Leighton Meester, Movies, Television, PG-13 Rated Movies
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Teel Time: Carrier Classic organizers want Newport News shipyard to design, build trophy for game
Organizers of the Carrier Classic college basketball game scheduled for the deck of the Newport News-built USS Carl Vinson want the local shipyard to design and build the event's championship trophy.
The Morale Entertainment Foundation is negotiating...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Veterans Day, Manufacturing and Engineering, Mario Andretti, College Basketball
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Has NASA gone loony? Moon rocks or bust
Opinion L.A.Really, NASA? You're hard up for funds, yet you've got the manpower to go after a septuagenarian California woman trying to sell a flyspeck of moon rock -- a supposed gift to her late husband from Neil Armstrong? Joann Davis...... -
A haunting `what if?'
Change of SubjectAmong the more memorable audio pieces played Sunday at the Third Coast Filmless Festival (my wife is the executive director of the sponsoring organization) was this one: Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong came within inches of tragedy when they landed......
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