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Space shuttle Endeavour lit up the predawn sky above Florida’s Space Coast on Monday with a 4:14 a.m. launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has selected Zantech IT Services Inc. of McLean, Va., for the Programmatic and Institutional Learning Services contract.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will meet with reporters covering the launch of space shuttle Endeavour at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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NASA and its international partners are looking forward to unprecedented scientific opportunities aboard the International Space Station

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The Twitterverse and universe will converge during space shuttle Endeavour’s upcoming mission to the International Space Station. NASA is inviting the public to send questions for the astronauts via Twitter and have them answered live from space.

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NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017.

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NASA has exercised a second one-year option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services in support of the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden named Robert D. Braun the agency’s Chief Technologist.

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On Wednesday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden named Dr. Woodrow Whitlow, Jr., the associate administrator for Mission Support at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.

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NASA will hold a news media telecon at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 4, to discuss the latest Hubble images of the distant dwarf planet Pluto.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget request Monday by calling for change and a new era of innovation in America’s approach to science and space exploration.

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NASA has awarded $50 million through funded agreements to further the commercial sector’s capability to support transport of crew to and from low Earth orbit.

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NASA will hold news conferences on Monday, Feb. 1, and Tuesday, Feb. 2, to discuss the fiscal year 2011 budget request and announce bold new developments in the nation’s civil space effort.

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week – personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will brief reporters about the agency’s fiscal year 2011 budget at 3 p.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 1.

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News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Endeavour.

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NASA soon will provide Internet viewers an inside look at astronauts working in space by streaming video live from the International Space Station’s laboratories.

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