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    NASA

    September 3, 2010 1:55 pm

    Photo courtesy of Space Center HoustonPhoto courtesy of Space Center HoustonSpace Center Houston is launching a program intended to give underserved and minority students the kinds of hands-on opportunities to explore earth and space science that gifted and talented students have been getting. Participating Clear Creek district schools will include Space Center, Seabrook, Clear Lake and Victory Lakes intermediate schools, but the Exploration Academy is also open to private and home-school students.

    Schools, NASA
    September 3, 2010 7:10 am

    Former astronaut and electrical engineer William Lenoir has died following a bicycle accident in New Mexico.

    1993 Associated Press file photo

    NASA
    September 1, 2010 11:23 am

    Times may be painful at NASA as employees watch thousands of their contractor co-workers lose their jobs and the space-shuttle era come to an end, but a NASA news release boasts the space agency is rated as the fifth-based place to work in the federal government.

    NASA
    August 23, 2010 11:18 am

    Join the Lunar and Planetary Institute for an evening for Observe the Moon Night 2010, when lunar enthusiasts around the world will turn their telescopes towards the moon.

    NASA
    August 18, 2010 7:13 am

    A Clear Lake City resident who used to be a NASA contractor has pleaded guilty to stealing one of Sally Ride's flight suits.

    Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. NASA photo

    Clear Lake City, Crime, NASA
    August 11, 2010 8:48 am

    Sean O'Keefe: APSean O'Keefe: AP
    Former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe and his teenage son suffered broken bones in an Alaska plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens.

    NASA
    August 3, 2010 7:35 am

    As two astronauts in space prepared to make a spacewalk to repair the International Space Station's cooling system, two on the ground in Clear Lake were doing their own "walk."

    NASA
    August 2, 2010 2:34 pm

    APAP
    NASA is scrambling to come up with a repair plan for a serious malfunction that's knocked out half of the cooling system on the International Space Station.

    NASA
    August 2, 2010 7:26 am

    President Obama's proposed shift to commercial spacecraft companies poses long-term challenges for the Johnson Space Center, which has been mission control for every American manned mission since the early days of exploration.

    Businesses, NASA
    July 30, 2010 9:50 am

    Nick de la Torre/ChronicleNick de la Torre/Chronicle
    April Jean Evans quit the "coolest job in the world" - a position as team leader for NASA engineers working on the International Space Station - in protest over a plan to irradiate monkeys in an experiment.

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