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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: The Hubble Space Telescope is about to get an upgrade. Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven blasted into orbit at 3:55 a.m. Tuesday on a mission to modernize what has already been one of the projects of which NASA is most proud. "With a little luck and a couple weeks, the best telescope in the universe will be even better than it is now," commander Kenneth Bowersox said just before liftoff. Since its 1993 repair, the Hubble Space Telescope has consistently delivered breathtaking views of the universe as it existed almost at the beginning...
...offered a job. Tanner, a 33-year veteran of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ultimately turned down two other companies, and now develops landing gear for Boeing near Seattle. "I wanted to be where the action was," he says. Boeing also hired his wife Cheri, 45, another NASA veteran and engineer. As a bonus, Boeing arranged for Cheri to complete the one course she needed for a master's degree...
...year ended with NASA planning a manned flight to Mars. People looked forward...
...ashore near Cape Canaveral, almost 11 years after the explosion that killed all seven aboard. A beachcomber named Spider dragged both bits of wreckage out of the surf near Cocoa Beach, 20 miles south of Kennedy Space Center. By identifying the serial numbers on pieces of attached thermal tile, NASA was able to confirm the two pieces of metal, one 6 by 15 feet, the other 1 by 5 feet, were from the doomed shuttle. Challenger flew for 73 seconds after lifting off the pad at the Cape when a leak in one of the shuttle's solid fuel rockets...
...visits spacecraft and astronauts have made to the moon, they have limited their explorations to roughly equatorial areas, largely neglecting the polar regions. In 1994 NASA and the Pentagon launched a probe into a vertical lunar orbit that would reach those extreme latitudes...