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Space shuttle Columbia's second life - as a cautionary tale
by FP Staff
Feb 01, 2013

retrieved from Texas and Louisiana for months after the accident, was preserved for a unique archive and education program at the Kennedy Space Center #facebook # Politics # India # China # Japan # Technology # Arabic # NewsTracker # Florida # United Kingdom # Latin America # lifestyle
Archive offers new life for fallen space shuttle Columbia
by FP Staff
Feb 01, 2013

used to piece together space shuttles for flight, but it, like most of the Kennedy Space Center, is in the midst of a transition following the end #China # Business # Japan # Brazil # Arabic # NewsTracker # Russia # markets # opinion # lifestyle
Studies find hardy Earth microbes may resist conditions on Mars
by FP Staff
Jan 10, 2013

adjacent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The next step is to see how the microbes fare under even more hostile conditions, such as higher salt #facebook # Business # Japan # Brazil # Technology # Russia # Florida # Earth # opinion
Laptop with NASA workers' personal data is stolen
by FP Staff
Nov 15, 2012

the past few years. In March, a Kennedy Space Center worker's laptop that contained personal information on about 2,300 employees and students was stolen #Yahoo! # content
NASA's shuttle Atlantis makes its final journey
by F wire
Nov 03, 2012

final trip Friday morning along a 16 km route, leaving the Kennedy Space Center for the final time at 6.30 a.m.The trip was expected to reach its final #India # NewsTracker # archives
Last NASA space shuttle becomes museum piece
by FP Staff
Nov 03, 2012

, a manager with shuttle contractor United Space Alliance, told workers gathered before dawn outside the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building #NewsTracker # content
Festival-like atmosphere for shuttle Endeavour's Los Angeles move
by FP Staff
Oct 13, 2012

in Virginia. New York City has the prototype shuttle Enterprise at its Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. And the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral has #
Space shuttle Endeavour met with awe on trip through Los Angeles
by FP Staff
Oct 13, 2012

. Udvar-Hazy Center museum in Virginia. New York City has the prototype shuttle Enterprise at its Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. And the Kennedy Space #
Space shuttle Endeavour set for road trip to final Los Angeles home
by FP Staff
Oct 12, 2012

Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida has Atlantis."We have enjoyed the space shuttles, at least working here at NASA, and it's time now to let #Yahoo! # content
Space shuttle Endeavour set for road trip to final Los Angeles home
by FP Staff
Oct 12, 2012

and the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida has Atlantis."We have enjoyed the space shuttles, at least working here at NASA, and it's time now #Yahoo! # content

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