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NASA's oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday
Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he’d been gone from NASA ...
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Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions
Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...
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John Cornyn and Ted Cruz want to relocate a NASA space shuttle to Houston. Here's what it would take.
Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and ...
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How the Hubble Telescope became the 'Energizer bunny of spacecraft,' according to one of its astronaut visitors
"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA ...
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NASA's oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday
Fresh from space ... "Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he'd been gone from NASA for decades and was close to wrapping up ...