NASA Retires Historic B-52 'Mothership'
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NASA on Friday retired the B-52B jet that served as the "mothership" for a half-century of flight research projects ranging from the X-15 rocket planes of the 1960s to the X-43A hypersonic jet that flew at nearly 10 times the speed of sound last month.
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You've done enough, thanks Astronaut Bill Oefelein, who you may remember from the tale of nappy-wearing astronaut Lisa Nowak, is leaving NASA, the space agency said on Friday.â¦
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Email your nostalgia pictures for this daily feature to mypictures@mrn.co.uk   ON FEBRUARY 1 2003, the US space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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One of the oldest artifacts of America's first experiments with nuclear power, a 70-year-old atom-busting machine, will be junked, Columbia University said on Thursday.
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The latest launch, set for Friday, brings misty-eyed NASA engineers one step closer to the end of a flight program that's endured for 26 years.
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CHANTILLY, Virginia - Yesterday, the Smithsonian took the wraps off a new hangar where visitors can get close to a space shuttle. The space shuttle Enterprise is now on exhibit, the museum&#39;s second-largest artifact after the Concorde.
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MIAMI _ Dramatizing the fragility of the soon-to-be-retired space shuttle, NASA managers on Tuesday ordered Atlantis removed from the launch pad and rolled back to its hangar after a hailstorm punched thousands of shallow gouges into the craft.
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The NASA turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;Vomit Comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight Friday.
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Engineers for the space agency's experimental X-43A project prepare to break the aircraft speed record. But the hypersonic jet flight could be NASA's last. By Amit Asaravala.
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NASA mourns the loss of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who rocketed into space in his Faith 7 capsule on May 15, 1963 (above, right).
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Astronaut Lisa M. Nowak has been dismissed by NASA and will return to active duty in the Navy, officials said yesterday.
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NASA -- Riding like the tip of a spear on its modified Pegasus booster rocket, NASA's third X-43A hypersonic scramjet research vehicle took to the skies today for a captive-carry flight, remaining attached to its B-52B mothership aircraft.     Serving as a final in-flight check-out of the research vehicle and booster rocket combination prior to the actual launch and free-flight, the successful mission paves the way for launch day, tentatively scheduled for later this Fall...
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The space shuttle will not fly before May 2005, according to NASA officials. This pushes the shuttle&#39;s return-to-flight schedule back by two months, and postpones a vital servicing mission to the International Space Station.
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By Seth Borenstein Associated Press  HOUSTON -- NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home today after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.
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A report from National Academy of  Sciences released today recommends that NASA scrap plans to service the Hubble  Space Telescope (HST) robotically and instead use a space shuttle to get the job  done as originally planned.
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The Messenger spacecraft that zipped past Mercury two weeks ago found more evidence of the innermost planetâs turbulent past.
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HOUSTON The NASA four-engine turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;vomit comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight today.