Fewer Visit the Air and Space Museum
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WASHINGTON -- It's a mystery even for researche
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Even environmentally aware people are unwilling to reduce the amount of flying they do, research shows.
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AUSTIN -- America's path to outer space has always gone through Texas, and an interactive exhibit on view for the next six weeks at the state's official history museum in Austin explains that link in sometimes spectacular detail.
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Fewer international visitors are coming to the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, despite an initiative announced a year ago by top government officials.
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Judging by the thousands of spectators who made the trek to Mojave to watch SpaceShipOne fly early Monday morning, a lot of people are still interested in space flight.
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By Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 6--After years of job cuts and budget woes at NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, center officials weren't exactly doing a jig Monday after President Bush released his proposed 2008 budget for the space agency.
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By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 1--As a result, the public spaces of this normally packed metropolis should be relatively bereft of people, giving opportunistic urbanites a chance to find a rare, unjostled spot in museum galleries, plazas and other spaces open to the public.
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The space shuttles, the United States' only manned spacecraft, are to be retired in 2010 and the work of caring for the International Space Station will be largely turned over to others.
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NASA is studying the possibility of reducing the number of missions it will fly before retiring its three-orbiter space shuttle fleet, agency officials said Friday.
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Visits to Swedenâs national museums dropped nearly 20 percent last year after they ended their free admissions policy, Agence France-Presse reported. The culture ministry said that Swedenâs 19 national museums, 16 of them in Stockholm, recorded some 6.5 million visits in 2007, down from around 8.0 million a year earlier. The decline came after Swedenâs government pushed through new admission fees to the museums starting on Jan. 1, 2007, two years after the previous government had removed the fees.
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Â· Far fewer protests at homes of scientists  Â· Tougher laws and stronger policing seen as factors
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Among the people living around this disused Polish air base, there is little enthusiasm for the missile interceptor station likely to be built here as part of a U.S. missile defense system.
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By KASIE HUNT  More Time on the Ground The Orion delay is more time the U.S. will go without any manned spaceflight  the space shuttle is slated for retirement in 2010. It will fly 13 or 14 more missions to finish the International Space Station and maintain the Hubble space telescope.
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Not everyone's a fan of the jump in consumer-oriented exhibits.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ For more than a quarter century, space buffs have gathered by the thousands near the Kennedy Space Center, craning for views of shuttles bound for another world. What was it like aboard, they had to wonder.
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Some of the most common birds seen and heard in American back yards are becoming a less frequent sight and sound in much of the United States, according to a study released by the National Audubon Society.
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For those who find the vast array of high-tech hardware that fills the National Air and Space Museum overwhelming -- not to mention the constant hordes that fill the cavernous expanse -- a more serene and equally informative scientific experience is available less than a mile away at the largely...