Space

The final space shuttle lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida this morning despite the heavy cloud cover and threat of rain.

 Atlantis blasted off just after eleven a.m. (mountain time) carrying a crew of four. This is the smallest shuttle crew since 1983, the size was limited because a smaller Russian Soyuz rocket would need to be used for a rescue vehicle.

The crew consists of commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus.

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NASA Commander Mark Kelly at U2 Concert (YouTube)

U2 played May 21st at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver to kick off the current leg of their 360 Tour, were you there?

The Irish rockers had some surprises for the crowd at Qwest Field in Seattle recently. Bono dedicated "Beautiful Day" to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords,who continues to r

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Did you see Endeavour's final landing? As KING FM's "Special Space Correspondent" I forced myself to stay up late and cover the event.

Space Shuttle Endeavour returned with it's six-astonaut crew in a middle-of-the-night landing at Cape Canaveral this morning.

It was the 25th night landing out of the 134 shuttle flights and wrapped up the next-to-last mission for the 30-year-old NASA program.

Commander Mark Kelly guided Endeavour onto

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The space shuttle Endeavour was launched (Great photo from an airplane off MSN.com) on it's mission to the International Space Station at 6:56 MT this morning. Follow STS-134 at NASA.gov. The final mission for Endeavour was delayed two weeks due to an electronics glitch.

When it reaches the ISS on Wednesday, the shuttle will deliver nearly 15 tons of supplies and equipment, highlighted by the 7.5-ton Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which will be attached to the space station's exterior during a robotic arm operation. Once it's installed, the $2 billion particle detector will almost immediately start sending down data about cosmic rays according to msnbc.

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Yves "Jetman" Rossy has experienced a Grand Canyon tour as only someone who calls himself Jetman can: with a rocket-powered winged suit fastened to his back -- at speeds up to 190 mph.  This is something I would love to do...but it's pretty scary too!  Would you try it?

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Darth Vader has announced the assassination of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Galactic Empire Times is reporting.

The spoof appears in a knockoff website of the New York Times and is done amazingly well.

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The final launch of space shuttle Endeavour was delayed Friday afternoon due to a failure in a heater circuit. The heater keeps hydrazine fuel  from freezing while the shuttle is in orbit.

The earliest Endeavour will make it back into space is Monday after

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The Friday shuttle launch has been pushed back to at least Monday. Click here for update.

Is watching a shuttle launch on your bucket list? There are only two shuttle launches left to go.

The youngest of NASA's space shuttles is about to retire.

Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for launch at 1:47 pm Mountain Time on Friday, April 29. This will be the shuttle's 25th journey in 19 years.

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If you haven't heard yet, there's a big, bright moon on tonight. In Cheyenne, it was tough to photograph at about 8 pm Saturday, but we tried. It's rising in the east, behind some lingering cloud cover

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The most flown of all the space shuttles arrived back on Earth just before ten Wednesday morning, March 9th.

Space Shuttle Discovery's crew of six astronauts landed in Florida for the ship's final homecoming after completing their mission at the International Space Station

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The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida Thursday after a four-month delay for fuel tank repairs.

Discovery is carrying six astronauts and a humanoid robot named R2 to the International Space Station

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