Former NASA science chief Alan Stern to run UCF Space Institute

Posted by brandoniswrite on October 23, 2011

NASA’s former associate administrator for Science, S. Alan Stern, has been named director of the Florida Space Institute at Kennedy Space Center.  Stern will help the institute, a part of the University of Central Florida, develop projects that align UCF and Florida with the new emphasis in the space industry – unmanned flights, commercial flight, science [...]

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Space Shuttle Program: Spanning 30 Years of Discovery

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  Image above: Space shuttles Endeavour and Discovery meet in a “nose-to-nose” photo opportunity as the vehicles switch locations Aug. 11 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Now in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 (OPF-1), Discovery will go through more preparations for public display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in [...]

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