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As NASA winds down, the Europeans start making their own shuttle

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 12:53am

With just one flight to go, NASA is winding down the 30-year-old Space Shuttle program. The European Space Agency, on the other hand, is all systems go, with a green light to start building its Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV).

Gallery: Discovery gets disassembled, prepped for retirement

Evan Ackerman

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 11:41am

It's been just a few weeks since the space shuttle Discovery returned from her last mission to orbit, and already she's being partially disassembled and cleaned to prepare her for her final resting place, replacing Enterprise at the Smithsonian.

Space Shuttle engines: free to a good home

Monday, January 18, 2010 - 4:35am

Now that the Space Shuttle missions are ending, NASA is cleaning house. While complete shuttles are for sale at 50% off "retail," the deal of the century must be the free engines. These spare engines were originally offered for sale...

Spectacular voyage: final shuttle mission to the Hubble

Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 4:19am

Want to travel through space at 17,500 mph? Take a trip to the stars? "Go to places so far away, it's inconceivable that humans will ever go there?" Watch this trailer for Hubble 3D. Good lord, I feel small. And...

Treacherous shuttle mission already facing challenges

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 8:30am

It looked like a picture perfect shuttle launch on Monday, unless you were looking closely. Thinking I was in the Twilight Zone, I saw not one, but two pieces of debris falling from the shuttle during the minutes immediately after...

Desktop PC with 7-inch touchscreen doesn't need its own monitor

Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 10:04am

Here's something you don't see every day: a desktop PC with a built-in touchscreen. Usually, desktop PCs are designed to sit tucked under your desk and away from view, allowing an external monitor to display what it's got to show....

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