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Year in Review, 2011
Top events for the nation and the world News and Analysis News of the Nation The U.S. Avoids Default in 11th Hour • Occupy Wall Street • Campaign 2012 • Election 2011 • States…2011 Science News: A Search for Habitable Planets
The planet-hunting space telescope Kepler has found 1,235 planet candidates by Catherine McNiff Kepler focal plane assembly Source: NASA. Related Links…The Right Stuff
Pioneer John Glenn Returns to Space by Michael Morrison For more information on the space program, check out the following links: Apollo 11 MoonwalkNotable Staffed Space FlightsU.S. Staffed…Col. Eileen Marie Collins, 1999 News
42, decorated Air Force pilot, became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission when Columbia was launched into orbit in July. She had participated in two earlier shuttle missions,…John Glenn, 1998 News
77, recent U.S. senator and legendary astronaut, became the oldest person to fly in space, 36 years after he became the first American to orbit Earth. NASA decided to include an…U.S. History Timeline: The New Millennium - 2000 onward
/**/ Timeline: The New Millennium - 2000 - Find major events in U.S. History from 2000 through the present, including the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the historical election of Barack…Christa McAuliffe
Name at birth: Sharon Christa CorriganChrista McAuliffe was a high school teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who died with six other astronauts in the 1986 explosion of the U.S. space shuttle…Mae C. Jemison
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first American woman of color to travel into space on September 12, 1992. That was the day she rocketed into Earth orbit on an 8-day mission aboard the space shuttle…Maxime Faget 2004 Deaths
Maxime FagetAge: 83 innovative aerospace engineer who designed the Mercury space capsule and worked on all of NASA's manned spacecraft, including Gemini, Apollo, and the space shuttle. Died:…Guion S. Bluford, Jr.
Astronaut Guion Bluford became the first Black American in space when he flew on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. Guion Bluford was a Air Force fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, flying 144…Trending
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