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    NASA

    Slideshow • Science & Technology • ISSUE 44•17 • Apr 17, 2009
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    • NASA Chief Under Fire For Personal Shuttle Use

      CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—NASA officials became suspicious when the Discovery shuttle was found in a golf-course parking lot.
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    • NASA Baffled by Failure of Straw Shuttle

      NASA officials watched in horror Monday as the $68 billion straw space shuttle, Explorer 2, burst into flames just after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
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    • NASA Announces Plan To Bring Wi-Fi To Its Headquarters By 2017

      HOUSTON—Still relying on a single dial-up modem, NASA employees continue to get disconnected when someone at the Johnson Space Center picks up the phone to dial out.
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    • NASA Announces Plan To Launch $700 Million Into Space

      CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—"This is just another step in our long-term goal of putting $1 billion on Mars," said the project's lead scientist.
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    • NASA, NASCAR Merge

      CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—In an effort to generate excitement and public support for America's struggling space program, NASA announced Monday that it will join the wildly popular NASCAR racing circuit in time for the 1997 season.
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    • NASA Delays Shuttle Launch Out Of Sheer Habit

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    • Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars

      PASADENA, CA—After nearly three years of nonstop data collection, Spirit has begun transmitting obscene gestures and confusing rants.
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    • Space Tourist Spends Entire Vacation Inside Space Shuttle

      CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—"What's the point of traveling three million miles if you're just going to sit around some orbital craft all day?" said friend Jeffery Plotnick.
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    • NASA Launches Probe To Inform Pluto Of Demotion

      NASA scientists launched a special Consoler probe to assure the former planet that it was nothing personal, and that it will make a
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    • Mischievous Raccoon Wreaks Havoc On International Space Station

      MOSCOW—A devious little raccoon chewed through the power cord of the starboard truss, turning the space station over in orbit.
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