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By Nick Greene, About.com Guide to Space / Astronomy since 1998

Wordless Wednesday - Discovery Ready for Final Assembly and Checkout

Wednesday April 30, 2008
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Discovery Ready for Final Assembly and Checkout

Monday April 28, 2008
Space shuttle Discovery rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, where the shuttle's external tank and two solid rocket boosters await. Discovery ... Read More

Astronauts to Make Virtual Connection With Students

Sunday April 27, 2008
Astronauts flying on a space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope for a final time will speak to middle school students across America simultaneously at 1:15 p.m. EDT, ... Read More

Expedition 16 Crew Lands in Kazakhstan

Monday April 21, 2008
Commander Peggy Whitson and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the 16th International Space Station crew landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan around 4:30 a.m. EDT Saturday after 192 days in space. ... Read More

NASA Spacecraft Images Mars Moon in Color and in 3D

Thursday April 10, 2008
A new stereo view of Phobos, the larger and inner of Mars' two tiny moons, has been captured by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment ... Read More

Expedition 17 Crew Launches from Baikonur

Tuesday April 8, 2008
Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:16 a.m. ... Read More

New Station Crew Prepares For Launch Tuesday

Monday April 7, 2008
The Progress 28 cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station at 4:50 a.m. EDT Monday and headed into its deorbit and destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the ... Read More

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