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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 ...
Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?
In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...
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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 Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...
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How the Hubble Telescope became the 'Energizer bunny of spacecraft,' according to one of its astronaut visitors
It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle, which delivered Hubble to space 35 years ago, and it's no secret why both are there. Grunsfeld, a former NASA astronaut who has served as both ...
Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary: See NASA's new out-of-this-world images
Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...
NASA’s oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday
Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with ...
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 ...
The best things to see and do in Houston, US
Wendy Petrie touches down in Texas on a mission to discover all the best things to see and do in Houston. Spoiler alert: Nasa ...