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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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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NASA again postponed the space shuttle Discovery launch on Wednesday for the second time and will most likely make another attempt on August 28th to begin the mission to the International Space Station. Watch the launch live to the right on the Blippitt home page. The liftoff had been scheduled to take place at the [...]
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The space shuttle Discovery is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center tonight at 9:20pm EDT. Bookmark this post because you can watch the live feed right here… NASA scientists had delayed the launch by a month due to small cracks that had been found in the engine compartment’s hydrogen valves. Crews eventually [...]
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