Here are your top news headlines for this Tuesday night, April 17, 2012: – New grilling set for current, former GSA officials – Woman in jaywalking death wants charges dropped – Norway killer Breivik defends massacre – Space shuttle Discovery takes final flight Mobile users: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBeLXuul8V8 Incoming search terms:news headlines from april 17 2012world headline [...]

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Space Shuttle Discovery, perched atop a Boeing 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, made its final voyage today as it headed from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to its retirement place in Washington, D.C. The longest-serving orbiter in the space shuttle fleet will be transferred to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and will be placed [...]

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NASA is looking for at least two American companies to design and build a new “space taxi” to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station, the space agency announced yesterday. The effort is part of NASA’s new Integrated Design Project (IDC). The space agency plans to invest $300 million to $500 million into [...]

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Musician Chris Bray was just 13 years old when he and his dad attended NASA’s first-ever space shuttle launch on on April 12th, 1981. His mother took a picture of the two men watching the historic launch with binoculars and a Super 8 camera. Last week, Bray, 44, and his father, 70, went to see [...]

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Despite less than favorable weather, the Space Shuttle Atlantis took off this morning on NASA’s 135th and final shuttle mission. After launching, the shuttle was visible for about 42 seconds before disappearing into the clouds. NASA wound up waiving its own weather guidelines to allow the liftoff to go forward. In the end, the final [...]

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The Space Shuttle Atlantis is all packed up and ready to go for NASA’s 135th and final shuttle launch tomorrow (Friday), but stormy weather could threaten the liftoff. The space agency hopes to unveil Atlantis perched high atop its seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon for tomorrow’s planned 11:26 a.m. EDT [...]

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The Space Shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning (Monday) on its final trek which will deliver a pioneering physics experiment to the International Space Station (ISS). Endeavour launched at 8:56 a.m. EDT, carrying a six-member crew. The shuttle’s mission is commanded by astronaut Mark Kelly. His wife, Rep. Gabrielle [...]

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Where will each space shuttle wind up? That’s the question on many people’s minds today as NASA’s Space Shuttle program nears it conclusion. At a ceremony held today at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden revealed where each of the four space shuttle orbiters will be permanently displayed once the program [...]

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Employees at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida took a few moments out of their busy day to gather for an historic aerial photo Friday outside Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building. Thousands of workers stood side-by-side to form an outline of a space shuttle. The event was organized in honor of the Space Shuttle Program’s 30-year [...]

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An interesting development at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today as a white, powdery substance found there has tested positive for cocaine, according to NASA‘s Inspector General’s Office. “Law enforcement personnel field tested the substance, which indicated a positive test for cocaine,” says Renee Juhans, an executive officer with the office. “The substance is now [...]

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James Vanover, a worker at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, fell to his death today while preparing the Space Shuttle Endevaour for its final mission into space. Vanover’s body was discovered on one of the levels of Launch Pad 39A. It is unclear what caused him to fall. According to a press release, Vanover [...]

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NASA is preparing to launch the first of three final space shuttle missions this week, sending the Space Shuttle Discovery on its final voyage to the International Space Station on Thursday afternoon. Liftoff is set for Thursday afternoon at 4:50 p.m. EST from the Kennedy Space Center. Problems with Discovery’s fuel tank have delayed the [...]

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