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Legendary Jet That Flew Faster Than Rifle Bullet Heads For Storage
They swept the dirt from its path as the old rocket plane was rolled out of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday night.
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Replica Of Bedroom In "2001: A Space Odyssey" On Display In Washington
Film buffs can now visit a replica of the bedroom depicted in the penultimate scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey" on the 50th anniversary of its release.
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Smithsonian Turns to Kickstarter to Save Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit
The Smithsonian Institution in the US has launched a crowdfunding campaign to preserve the spacesuit in which NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
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Wright Brothers' Mechanic Honoured at Ohio Aviation Museum
The bike mechanic who designed and built the lightweight aluminum engine for Orville and Wilbur Wright's first powered aircraft was honoured this week with a bronze bust at an aviation museum in Ohio.
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Virgin Galactic tourist spaceship breaks sound barrier
Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane, which is designed to take tourists to the edge of space, flew its first rocket-powered test flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier at high altitude.
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Legendary Jet That Flew Faster Than Rifle Bullet Heads For Storage
They swept the dirt from its path as the old rocket plane was rolled out of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday night.
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Replica Of Bedroom In "2001: A Space Odyssey" On Display In Washington
Film buffs can now visit a replica of the bedroom depicted in the penultimate scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey" on the 50th anniversary of its release.
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Smithsonian Turns to Kickstarter to Save Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit
The Smithsonian Institution in the US has launched a crowdfunding campaign to preserve the spacesuit in which NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
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Wright Brothers' Mechanic Honoured at Ohio Aviation Museum
The bike mechanic who designed and built the lightweight aluminum engine for Orville and Wilbur Wright's first powered aircraft was honoured this week with a bronze bust at an aviation museum in Ohio.
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Virgin Galactic tourist spaceship breaks sound barrier
Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane, which is designed to take tourists to the edge of space, flew its first rocket-powered test flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier at high altitude.
