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HOUSTON, May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Twitter followers will have the chance to personally go inside the heart of a space shuttle mission at the agency's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. NASA is hosting a unique Tweetup on Wednesday, May 19 during Atlantis' STS-132 mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, May 14 at 1:20 p.m. CST. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "We're...
HOUSTON, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time, NASA Twitter followers can personally go inside the heart of a space shuttle mission at the agency's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. NASA is hosting a unique Tweetup on Wednesday, Feb. 17 during Endeavour's STS-130 mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Feb. 8 at 3:14 a.m. CST.(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)...
HOUSTON, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A moon rock collected during the historic Apollo 11 mission more than 40 years ago will be heading back to space and a new home aboard the International Space Station, sharing quarters with a piece of Mt. Everest. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) On May 20, 2009, former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski carried the rock to the top of Mt. Everest where he collected a rock from the world's highest mountain to accompany...
A moon rock collected during the historic Apollo 11 mission more than 40 years ago will be heading back to space and a new home aboard the International Space Station, sharing quarters with a piece of Mt. Everest. On May 20, 2009, former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski carried the rock to the top of Mt. Everest where he collected a rock from the world's highest mountain to accompany the lunar sample for its return to space. During an event Jan. 6 at Space Center Houston, Parazynski will...
