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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama is reaffirming his commitment to space exploration as America marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing.
Barack Obama was only seven years old when Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon.
But he still has memories of those days. He recalls standing [...]

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Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who landed on the moon 40 years ago Monday, says the United States should set its sights on a mission to Mars.
Aldrin appeared on the television news program Fox News Sunday, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11’s lunar landing.
Aldrin said Mars appears to be [...]

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Space shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 11:39 a.m. EDT, completing a 13-day journey of approximately 5.3 million miles in space.
During a press conference held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Ed Weiler said, “Now, and only now [...]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew will stay in space another day after bad weather prevented them from landing Saturday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA Flight Director Norm Knight and the entry team will evaluate weather conditions at Kennedy before permitting the shuttle to land. [...]

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TEHRAN, Iran, Feb. 3, 2009 — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is hailing the announced launch of his nation’s first domestically-built satellite as a gift to the people of Iran.
Ahmadinejad said Tuesday the satellite — named (Omid) Hope — was launched into orbit late Monday. According to media reports, the satellite was carried into [...]

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WASILLA, Alaska, Nov. 10, 2008 — In one of her first interviews since the election, Gov. Sarah Palin said the Republican ticket offered too much “status quo”
“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were [...]

By Jessica Berman
Voice of America
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2008 — The U.S. space agency NASA is gearing up for next week’s launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle will service the orbiting scientific outpost and prepare it for an expansion in the spring.
Endeavour will blast off on [...]

By Parke Brewer
Voice of America
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 23, 2008 — Major League Baseball’s World Series opened Wednesday night in Florida, between the host Tampa Bay Rays – the American League champions – and the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies.
In a game that did not end until shortly after midnight Wednesday, it was Philadelphia’s bullpen [...]

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2008 — Data from satellites and observatories around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed almost directly at Earth.
NASA’s Swift satellite detected the explosion — formally named GRB 080319B — at 2:13 a.m. EDT that morning and pinpointed its position in the constellation Bootes. [...]

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HOUSTON, Sept. 11, 2008  — Hurricane Ike has delayed the scheduled Friday arrival of a Russian Progress cargo ship at the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth.
The Progress docking was postponed when the space station’s control room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was closed Thursday because of the approaching storm.
Control of the [...]