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<title><![CDATA[Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies at 77]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:13:16 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gordon Cooper (search), who was the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original seven Mercury astronauts and set the space endurance record that helped clear the way for the first moon landing, has died.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Astronaut Hall of Fame to Add 3 Shuttle Veterans in April]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:16:51 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A trailblazing commander, the commander of a trailblazer, and a payload commander will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame this April.Eileen Collins, the first woman to lead a shuttle mission, Curtis Brown, who commanded John Glenn's triumphant return to space and Bonnie Dunbar, who managed life and science experiments on Spacelab and Mir space station missions, were confirmed as this year's honorees by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF), which oversees the Hall of Fame's annual selections.The three veteran space shuttle crew members will be added to the 81 astronauts enshrined in the Astronaut Hall of Fame since 1990, including NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo program pioneers.An induction ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 20, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, where the Astronaut Hall of Fame is located.The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation will host a gala in the three astronauts' honor on Friday, April 19, with many of the Hall's earlier inductees expected to attend.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fox News Reporting: Fly Me to the Moon]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:41:29 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The story of how America achieved the unbelievable]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[States compete to become FAA drone test sites]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:44:29 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's the land where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, where the space shuttle fleet rolled off the assembly line and where the first private manned rocketship climbed to space.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Fly Me to the Moon': 40 years since the final mission]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:58:41 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fox News Reporting tells the story of how America achieved the unbelievable]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[James Bond in space: The world's favorite spy soars]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[James Bond, the fictional British spy who celebrates the 50th anniversary of his film franchise this year, has done quite a lot of sleuthing in space as well as on Earth.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA Names New Chief Astronaut]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:46:19 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[HOUSTON — NASA's astronauts have a new chief.Peggy Whitson, who three years ago was named the 13th Chief of the Astronaut Office, making her the first woman to lead the U.S. Astronaut Corps, stepped down in July, a spokesman at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston confirmed to collectSPACE.com.Space shuttle veteran Robert Behnken, who most recently served as one of Whitson's deputies, has been named the new Chief Astronaut.The position, which was first created and held by Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton in 1962, oversees the activities of the astronaut corps including managing training programs, appointing technical assignments and choosing the crews for upcoming space missions."The Chief of the Astronaut Office has an unenviable job — she or he has the power to make flight assignments as well as important career appointments, but each decision is guaranteed to make one or more astronauts unhappy," Michael Cassutt, co-author of Slayton's autobiography and a member of a 2011 National Academy of Sciences panel that reviewed the future direction of the Astronaut Office, said in an interview with collectSPACE.com.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breitling Models New Timepiece After Missing Historic Space Watch]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 30 May 2012 01:06:19 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Swiss watchmaker Breitling is offering a new timepiece to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its watches' first launch into space, which was also the first time an American astronaut wore a wristwatch into orbit.The newly issued Breitling Navitimer Cosmonaute borrows some features from the chronograph that astronaut Scott Carpenter wore on NASA's Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, a historic watch has been missing for the half-century since Carpenter set the record as the second American to circle the Earth.Carpenter, one of NASA's original seven astronauts, lifted off on May 24, 1962.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This Week in History]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:51:16 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Past events that made headlines]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[First US Manned Spacecraft Lands at JFK Library in Boston]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:52:23 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Freedom 7, NASA's first spacecraft to launch an astronaut into space, has landed in Boston for display at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.The space capsule, which on May 5, 1961 lifted off with astronaut Alan Shepard for a 15 minute suborbital mission, arrived at the JFK Library on Aug.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Sigma 7' at 50: Retro Space Images Recall 5th US Spaceflight]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:28:54 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago today, the United States launched its fifth astronaut into space.Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, Jr.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA's Moonwalking Apollo Astronauts: Where Are They Now?]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:40:44 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, died  Saturday (Aug.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SpaceX Launches Private Capsule on Historic Trip to Space Station]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 May 2012 21:51:23 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ashes of Star Trek's 'Scotty' ride private rocket into space]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Scotty has finally been beamed up. The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the 1960s television series "Star Trek," were launched to space this morning (May 22) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Saying goodbye to Neil Armstrong]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:37:03 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What does the future hold for manned spaceflight?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SpaceX launches new era in space flight]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 22 May 2012 12:25:15 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Former astronaut weighs in on first commercial rocket blast]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA remembers astronauts who never made it home]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:17:20 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Harrigan reports from Cape Canaveral, Florida]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mission Milestones: 2013's Space Exploration Anniversaries]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:07:52 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Spaceship" Earth has completed another revolution around the sun, and has set off on another 365-day, 583-million-mile (940 million kilometers) journey across time and space.Over the past year, humankind's efforts to push farther out into the solar system have resulted in launching the first commercial spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station, landing a car-size rover on Mars, docking the first Chinese manned spacecraft and sending 18 people to live and work off the planet.In 2012, two probes completed the most detailed map of the moon's gravity and North Korea (controversially) joined the nations that have lofted a satellite into space.Over the next 12 months, more commercial spacecraft will visit the station, new probes will be launched to the moon and Mars, and if all goes as planned, the first spacecraft created to fly paying tourists on suborbital spaceflights will leave the Earth's atmosphere for the first time.As these and other firsts enter history, they will join a half century of international space milestones.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Neil Armstrong's Family, NASA Remember First Moonwalker]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:53:30 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The late astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, was memorialized in ceremonies around the country on Friday (Aug.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cece Bibby, Artist Behind NASA Space Capsule Logos, Dies]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:46:24 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cecelia "Cece" Bibby, who in 1962 was recruited by John Glenn to design and hand-paint the insignia on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft, died on Wednesday (Nov.]]></description>
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