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Space Shuttle Endeavour Rolls Into New L.A. Home At Museum

Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The retired space shuttle Endeavour rolled into its retirement home at a museum early on Sunday, in the conclusion of a slow-motion parade through the narrow streets of Los Angeles. Endeavour arrived at about 10:45 a.m. at...

Tags: New York City, Tour Operations Industry, Museums, Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Science and Technology

SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private company successfully delivered a half-ton of supplies to the International Space Station early Wednesday, the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA. The SpaceX cargo ship, called...

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says launch 'a giant weight ... off my back'

Billionaire Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX, sent his Falcon 9 rocket into space early Tuesday morning with an unmanned Dragon capsule after an original mission was aborted over the weekend. How’s he feeling? Extremely relieved....

Tags: PayPal, Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Tesla Motors, Inc.

3, 2, 1 ... Antares rocket rolls out

This week, the first stage of the biggest rocket ever to launch from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore rolled out onto its new $145 million launchpad … .. and Virginia is one step closer to the sky-high ambitions of many in...

Tags: Orbital Sciences Corporation, SpaceX, Satellite Technology, Space Programs, Science and Technology

Free entrance to national parks on Saturday

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Get in free at U.S. National Parks on Saturday, Sept. 29, as part of the park system's free entrance program. The park service is waiving fees to over 100 parks around the country to celebrate National Public Lands Day. Parks on the Florida list:...

Tags: Facebook, Gardens and Parks, Mass Media, Tourism and Leisure, Everglades National Park

Florida travel calendar for September

Check out festivals and events in September across the state. Check out statewide events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below: Coming up this week Through Nov. 2 (Select Nights): Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party,...

Tags: Halloween, Ana Popovic, Business, Spanish-American War, Fitz and the Tantrums (music group)

Bob Andrews, Dec. 4, 1930-Sept. 7, 2012

Bob Andrews, a 50 year resident of Burbank, CA, died at the age of 81 at his home on September 7, 2012. Bob was born on December 4, 1930 to George W. and Nola (Cantrell) Andrews in Waurika, Oklahoma. Bob graduated from Waurika High School in 1949 where he...

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Tags: Hudson River, Smithsonian Institution, Museums, Space Programs, Gabrielle Giffords

Endeavour flight delayed, but arrival in L.A. remains on schedule

One leg of the space shuttle Endeavour's final journey has been delayed because of bad weather, but the craft will still arrive in Los Angeles on schedule Thursday, NASA announced Sunday. Endeavour was to travel from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape...

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Space shuttle Endeavour, on way to L.A., will do flyovers

WASHINGTON -- Sorry, Houston, you didn’t get a space shuttle, but at least you’ll get a glimpse of the last one to fly -- on its way to L.A. NASA’s plans for delivering the retired shuttle Endeavour to its permanent home in California...

Tags: Atlantis, New York City, Boeing Co., Space Programs, Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum

SpaceX rocket carries Maryland science project into space

As the space capsule called Dragon hurtled toward the International Space Station at about 17,500 miles per hour on Friday, no space enthusiast was more enthralled than Paul Warren, a self-described "nerd" who attends Henry E. Lackey High School in...

Tags: Colleges and Universities, National Institutes of Health, High Schools, Teachers, Space Programs

Purdue band members to fly world's largest drum into Lake Michigan

Purdue News Service

WEST LAFAYETTE — Members of Purdue University's "All-American" Marching Band are building a new version of the World's Largest Drum that will fly over and into Lake Michigan. The "Droppin the Bass" glider will be launched off a four-story lakefront...

Tags: Purdue Boilermakers, Michigan Wolverines, Neil Armstrong, Aerospace Manufacturing, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade