Astronaut hangout in Houston area is sold

The mission is nearly over for the Outpost Tavern near Johnson Space Center.

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Gulf Coast officials ask Congress for money

Gulf Coast officials asked lawmakers on Tuesday for fast federal money for hurricane recovery and a minimum of bureaucratic red tape.

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Ike victims attempt to return, but get turned away

Residents trying to get back to this hurricane-ravaged city Wednesday spent hours fuming in gridlocked traffic, only to be turned away at the bridge by officials worried that the crippled island can't accommodate that many people.

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Police: Poor Review Set Off NASA Gunman

The gunman in an apparent murder-suicide at the Johnson Space Center targeted a NASA worker he feared could get him fired, police said Saturday.

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NASA Reviews Security Following Shooting

NASA is concentrating on a review of its security procedures as officials try to figure out how a contract worker smuggled a handgun into the Johnson Space Center, where he killed another employee and himself, a spokesman said Saturday.

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Astronaut Suffered 'Mental Anguish'

Anyone who's read Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" or seen the movie based on it knows about the mental and emotional stresses astronauts face as they train for space travel.

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The idea of ice in the floors of sunlight-shy polar lunar craters was first aired in 1961 by Caltech researchers Kenneth Watson, Bruce Murray, and Harrison Brown.

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Hurricane Ike: Catastrophe Looms

If you believe in prayer, this would be a good time to do so.

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The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the nation's next spaceship: Lots of urine.

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NASA to launch an original prop from the Star Wars movies into space.

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A building at the Johnson Space Center was evacuated Friday afternoon because a man with a weapon was inside. Also online Map of JSC showing building 44 "A person with a weapon was in Building 44," confirmed NASA spokesperson Kylie Clem.

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NASA evacuated a building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston after a person with a gun was seen and a shot was fired, a NASA spokesman said Friday.

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NASA announced plans on Monday for a permanent base on the Moon, to be started soon after astronauts return there around 2020.

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