Shuttle Loss Proved &#39;Cathartic,&#39; Departing NASA Leader Says
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The loss of the shuttle Columbia was not just a low point in NASA history, but was also a &quot;cathartic moment&quot; that led to reforming the space agency and pushed the nation
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The record series of four hurricanes that hit Florida in recent weeks has ended NASA&#39;s hopes of returning the space shuttles to flight in March 2005, NASA announced on Friday.
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Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper   collapsed twice during a welcome-home ceremony on Friday, a day   after returning to Earth from a 12-day mission on space shuttle   Atlantis.
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NASA&#39;s next leader must wholeheartedly back the US president&#39;s space plan - which focuses on human space flight - says departing boss Sean O&#39;Keefe.
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The space program Sean O&#39;Keefe is leaving behind - probably before the second anniversary of the shuttle accident that will define his tenure - is far different from the agency he stepped into three years ago.
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The crews of the space shuttle and station say a teary farewell after more than a week of working tirelessly together to build a bigger and better scientific outpost in orbit. Atlantis is scheduled to undock early Monday, its load considerably lighter than when it arrived Feb. 9 with Europe's premiere space laboratory, Columbus.
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NASA's departing chief, Sean  O'Keefe, on Friday defended his decision to pursue a robotic  repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, days after a  panel of scientists said a shuttle mission would be better.
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Sean O&#39;Keefe, who resigned Monday as the head of NASA to pursue his application to become chancellor of Louisiana State University, is credited with helping restore the space
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NASA's departing boss, Sean O'Keefe, said Friday he does not regret canceling the last shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope &#151; or anything else during his three years on the job.
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When Sean OâKeefe took the top NASA job in 2001, the space community didnât know quite what to make of him. A self-described ânumbers guyâ, he was a management expert and his former
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Washington: NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe has resigned, spending three turbulent years at the helm of the US space agency which saw the crash of Columbia space shuttle, a painful probe into the disaster and severe austerity measures.
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By Angie Herrington, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 21--Chattanoogan June Scobee Rodgers says she can relate to how the  families of the six astronauts on the Atlantis space shuttle must have felt  this morning before the spacecraft's expected return.
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This is a sad day for the NASA Family. Yesterday&#39;s vanpool accident involving employees of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has taken the lives of three of our own: Dorothy M. Forks, an employee records
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Sept. 6, 2004 âThe damage report isn&#39;t even complete, much less an understanding of the impact Hurricane Frances will have on NASA&#39;s wallet and scheduled return of the shuttle fleet to flight.
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The loss of the shuttle Columbia was a "cathartic moment" that led to reforming the space agency and pushed the nation to establish a broader space policy, Sean O'Keefe said.
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Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a weekâs worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  and ERIN McCLAM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  ORLANDO, Fla.  In July, astronaut Lisa Nowak traveled 5.3 million miles in a single-minded mission to put America's beleaguered space shuttle program back on track.