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Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?
And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...
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We Built the Saturn V
The “V” stood for the five giant F-1 rocket engines—still the most powerful ever built—clustered at the bottom of the Saturn V ... to know the [Kennedy Space] Center director, Dr ...
Space Coast Daily5d
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 13 Launched 55 Years Ago, Marking NASA’s Most Famous Rescue Mission
Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...
Thomasville Times-Enterprise1mon
Model rocket launch to mark 50th anniversary of first moon walk
Led by Wernher von Braun, the powerful Saturn V rocket was developed to lift the three Americans on their historic mission, according to information from the space center. With the 50-year ...
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Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States entered the space station...
Like earlier Saturn V missions, the rocket was assembled in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, with build-up commencing on Aug. 2, 1972. The rocket was stacked atop Mobile ...
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Dow High's Space Farmers present research on astronaut health
Student engineers from Dow High School presented their biomedical innovations at the NASA HUNCH Final Design Review.