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Humans first traveled to the moon 40 years ago.



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NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

11.18.09

Two key instruments from Hubble have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis in May 2009.

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COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary

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11.17.09

COBE, launched on Nov. 18, 1989, discovered evidence to support the Big Bang Theory and earned a Nobel Prize for scientists John Mather and George Smoot.

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Famed Engineer O'Malley Dies at age 94

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11.13.09

Thomas O'Malley helped establish or adjust launch operations for most of NASA's human space exploration programs during his pioneering career.

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