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  • NASA signs over shuttle title to California museum

    NASA has transferred ownership of the retired space shuttle Endeavour to a California museum.


  • CA science center pays $110,000 over canceled film

    A documentary on intelligent design, a theory of creation that has been dismissed by some in the scientific community as comparable to claiming the South won the Civil War, can be shown at the California Science Center under terms of a settlement announced Monday.


  • CA science center pays $110,000 over canceled film

    A documentary on intelligent design, a theory of creation that has been dismissed by some in the scientific community as comparable to claiming the South won the Civil War, can be shown at the California Science Center under terms of a settlement announced Monday.


  • Space shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

    Northern Va.'s Udvar-Hazy Center gets space shuttle

    NASA is giving its retiring space shuttles to museums at Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington.


  • Future astronaut Emily D'Arcy, 10, right, meets her hero retired astronaut Bonnie Dunbar at the Museum of Flight before an announcement that the museum would not be receiving a retired space shuttle Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Seattle. D'Arcy, who hopes to pilot a next-generation of spacecraft one day, was among about 200 guests and staff who attended the announcement at the museum. Shuttles will be going to  the Smithsonian Institution, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The Seattle museum will be given the full-fuselage shuttle trainer. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

    NASA to send shuttles to Fla., Calif., suburban DC

    On a memorable day in space history, NASA began its goodbyes to the shuttle program Tuesday, announcing the aged spacecraft will retire to museums in Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington and sending a test-flight orbiter to New York City.


  • American Scene

    NASA's three remaining space shuttles will go to Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington when the program ends this summer, the space agency said Tuesday.


  • Future astronaut Emily D'Arcy, 10, right, meets her hero retired astronaut Bonnie Dunbar at the Museum of Flight before an announcement that the museum would not be receiving a retired space shuttle Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Seattle. D'Arcy, who hopes to pilot a next-generation of spacecraft one day, was among about 200 guests and staff who attended the announcement at the museum. Shuttles will be going to  the Smithsonian Institution, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The Seattle museum will be given the full-fuselage shuttle trainer. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

    Space shuttles going to Fla., Calif., suburban DC

    On a memorable day in space history, NASA began its goodbyes to the shuttle program Tuesday, announcing the aged spacecraft will retire to museums in Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington and sending a test-flight orbiter to New York City.


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