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Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster 25 Years Ago Today

25 years ago today the world witnessed the disaster of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. We honor the memory of those who lost their lives in this tragedy. Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Ellison...

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Dale's Daily Data: Shuttle Columbia Disaster

It was just last week we remembered the crew of the space shuttle Challenger who were killed in 1986 when the fuel tank exploded a minute after launch.  Today is the 8th anniversary of the break-up of...

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How They Built The International Space Station

Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was the International Space Station. Big thanks to WYRK listener Tom Garwol of Williamsville for providing the link to this very cool video of the construction of...

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Everyday Items Invented By NASA – Dale's Daily Data

It was more than 50 years ago when Alan Sheppard became the first American to fly into space.  Since then 12 men have walked on the moon.  More than 500 people from 39 countries including 55 women have...

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2nd Last Space Shuttle Flight – Dale's Daily Data

The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for its final mission into space this morning before it’s retired leaving just one more mission for the shuttle program this summer.  After more than 30 years...

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Kennedy's Challenge To Land A Man On The Moon – Dale's Daily Data

With the Soviet Union having put the first man in space just a month before it became a personal goal of President John F. Kennedy to send an American to the moon by the end of the decade of the 1960’s...

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NASA's Plan to Send Humans into Low Orbit Saves Hundreds of Jobs

With the space shuttle program having come to an end, NASA has quickly revealed its next plan for returning to space.  NASA will work with one of its longtime commercial partners and a European...

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History's First Look at the Space Shuttle – Dale's Daily Data

It took 10 billion dollars and 10 years to develop, but the first space shuttle made its first public debut in a ceremony in California on this date in 1976.  The following year the Enterprise, made...

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NASA Satellite Returns to Earth – Somewhere

NASA scientists say that dead satellite returned to earth overnight somewhere over the Pacific, but with a 500 mile area where it could have fallen they're not sure exactly where it fell.  Most of it...

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How To See This Weekend's Meteor Shower

Looking for something to do this weekend that won't cost you a dollar?  Stay up late Friday night and check out the stars.  I'm not trying to be a cheeseball, but this weekend is the Orionid meteor...

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Look Out Below? Major Asteroid To Pass Close To Earth.

  An asteroid bigger than a jumbo jet is on course to come close to the Earth and moon on Tuesday.  Its been about 35 years since a space object of this size has graced the proximity of our planet....

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Sally Ride – The First Woman in Space Dies at 61

TMZ is reporting that Sally Ride has passed away.  In 1983 she did something that no other woman before her had done.  She was the first woman in space.  But with that trip, she also broke another...

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NASA Says The World Won't End Next Week

NASA is so confident the world won't end on December 21st that they're releasing a video ahead of time.  The video "Why The World Didn't End Yesterday" was originally scheduled to be released on...

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Would You Take A Honeymoon To Mars?

Would you want to go to Mars? Financial tycoon Dennis Tito, who himself took a ride in space on the International Space Station, has unveiled a trip to Mars for husband and wife astronauts to launch...

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Hubble Telescope's Days Are Numbered

Conceived in the 1940’s, designed in the 1970’s, built in the 1980’s, it was in April of 1990 that the Hubble telescope was placed into orbit by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. A major problem...

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Ladies Make Big Splash In Space Program

NASA has picked eight new astronauts, half of them women. And that’s the highest percentage of female astronaut candidates ever selected for a class. There were 6,100 applicants. NASA says they choose...

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Astronauts Put A GoPro In A Water Bubble In Space And Then Things Get Weird...

If space was just a quick drive away I think it would be fun. However, you need to be super smart and healthy to go up there! But once you're there you get to do the coolest things!   Continue reading…

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Would You Do This For $18,000? I Would…

About a year ago, NASA was looking for people to stay in bed straight for 70 days and $170 dollars a day and they're looking for people again! Continue reading…

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It's the 10th Anniversary of the Historic Landing on Saturn's Moon Titan

In 2014, the European Space Agency (ESA) did the incredible: it landed a probe on a comet. But this wasn't its first rodeo. Ten years ago, it parked a probe on the hazy, alien moon of Titan. Continue...

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Hubble Telescope’s Days Are Numbered

Conceived in the 1940’s, designed in the 1970’s, built in the 1980’s, it was in April of 1990 that the Hubble telescope was placed into orbit...

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