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Gabby Giffords To Resign From Congress

January 23, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter U.S. Congresswoman Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) announced today, Sunday Jan. 22, that she will step down from Congress later this week to continue recuperating from critical brain injuries she suffered during a deadly assassination attempt a year ago in Tucson, Arizona. [...]

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Astronaut Mark Kelly Retires from NASA

June 21, 2011

Astronaut Mark Kelly, commander of the recent STS-134 shuttle mission and husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, announced today via Facebook that he is retiring from NASA and the US Navy to spend time with his wife. Other sources say the two will write a memoir together. “This was not an easy decision,” he wrote on [...]

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STS-134 Shuttle Commander Mark Kelly appears at U2360° Concert in Seattle: Music Video

June 7, 2011

Check out this out-of-this-world surprise delivered by the rock band U2 to their concert audience at Quest Field, Seattle U2 on the night of June 4; A video message from STS-134 Shuttle Commander Mark E. Kelly – From the Official U2 YouTube Website According to the website, “Bono dedicated ‘Beautiful Day’ to Gabby Giffords, before [...]

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Era of Space Shuttle Endeavour Ends with June 1 landing at the Kennedy Space Center

June 1, 2011

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Space Shuttle Endeavour and her six man crew landed safely today at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:35 a.m. EDT following a 16 day journey of more than sixteen million miles. The STS-134 mission marked the end of Endeavour’s space exploration career. It was the 25th and last space [...]

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Amazing Photos and Milestone Tributes Mark Last Space Shuttle Spacewalk

May 28, 2011

Absolutely remarkable exterior panoramic photos of the ISS and tributes by Shuttle Astronauts marked two major milestones in spaceflight history today, May 27; the last spacewalk ever by Space Shuttle Astronauts and the formal completion of the US segment of the International Space Station after 12 years of construction. Today’s spacewalk by shuttle Endeavour Astronauts [...]

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