Nixon hopes reentry isn't too bumpy a ride
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A professional athlete sidelined by an injury might as well be a dead man. Harsh, but true. If you are too hurt to play, you might as well stay home. Some teammates don't even want to look at you. Reminds them of their own vulnerability. In a big league locker room, no one wants to talk about ...
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As NASA prepares to return the space shuttle to orbit, there is debate over whether the fleet is as safe as it should be.
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The voice on the tape is eerie. It is the final stretch of the 1972 elections, and in the White House, Richard Nixon is poring over the news from the campaign trail with his aide, Chuck Colson, and weighing up his prospects for re-election.
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The space shuttle Endeavour glided to a safe landing at the Kennedy Space Center, apparently not much worse for wear.
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When it comes to weather for presidential inaugurations, second time around isn't always the charm.
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NASA's hurricane-damaged spaceport should be able to withstand the wind and rain from Ivan if the storm stays well to the west, the Kennedy Space Center's director said Saturday.
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By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND -- Disappointed Air Force officials say it will be Thursday "at the very best" before their Minotaur I rocket will blast off here for space.
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U.S. growth will be tepid until mid-year but should get a one-two punch from tax rebates and lower interest rates to boost the economy, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez predicted on Tuesday.
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Officials overseeing the Atlantis shuttle mission have given the go-ahead for its planned landing on Thursday in Florida, despite earlier concerns over debris floating near the orbiter, a NASA spokesman said.
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Sometimes strident, sometimes  sympathetic, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is walking a  fine line in trying to win more public support and troops from  Europe for NATO's war in Afghanistan.
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Richard Nixon was president and man was still making trips to the moon the last time the word &quot;Washington&quot; appeared in the major league baseball standings.
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BERLIN, Feb. 21--Traveling with the secretary of state is often a breeze. Reporters never stand in security lines, never go through passport control, never collect their bags and never have to change planes. They are whisked from the plane to the hotel in a high-speed motorcade that never stops for...
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Twenty months after the Columbia tragedy, NASA is still struggling to overcome serious engineering hurdles  to resume flying its space shuttles in  March, a task that has become even tougher because of hurricane-caused work stoppages and damage to critical facilities.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Monday the Bush administration was considering how to give the economy a boost as it weathers a housing correction, but didn't want to rush.
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George W. Bush&#39;s address tonight to the Republican National Convention, accepting his renomination as president, lacks the do-or-die tension his father faced l2 years ago in Houston.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday played down fears that Afghanistan could become a lost cause but admitted Washington faced a "bumpy" ride to press allies into sharing the burden there.
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NASA may be going to the same old moon with a ship that looks a lot like a 1960s Apollo capsule, but the space agency said Monday that it's going to do something dramatically different this time: Stay there.