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Head of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, Charles Bolden, speaks during a press conference in Berlin, Monday, May 19, 2014. The head of NASA has dismissed concerns that friction with Russia might spell the end of the International Space Station. Russia’s deputy prime minister said last week that his country wouldn’t cooperate with the United States on the project beyond 2020. The move followed a decision by the United States to impose sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said Monday that the space station is run jointly by the U.S., Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada, and no single partner can terminate the project. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

NASA: Russia alone can’t end space station work

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MAY 18 AND THEREAFTER - In this April 21, 2014 photo, Freeport, Ill., native Alec Mangan,17, displays designs he helped produce for the Orion spacecraft as part of an engineering competition sponsored by NASA. His team was one of five finalist teams in a NASA Exploration Design Challenge earlier this year. (AP Photo/The Journal-Standard, Bill Rosemeier)

EXCHANGE: Freeport teen excited after NASA contest

By SHANNON IRELAND - Associated Press

FILE - This April 22, 2014 file photo provided by NASA shows a photo of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station and was photographed by one of two spacewalking astronauts. On Sunday, May 18, 2014, after a one-month visit, the SpaceX cargo ship was for return to Earth. The astronauts released it using the International Space Station’s big robot arm. (AP Photo/NASA, File)

SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth from space station

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

NASA downplays Russian’s talk on space cooperation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Space station loses power channel, backup working

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - This 1967 file image provided by NASA shows research pilot Bill Dana in front of the X-15 on the dry lake bed at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Dana, the famed research test pilot who flew the X-15 rocket plane and other pioneering aircraft, died Tuesday, May 6, 2014. He was 83. (AP Photo/NASA, File)

X-15 rocket plane pilot Bill Dana dies at 83

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‘Jeopardy!’ crew seeks show clues in Cleveland

By MICHAEL K. McINTYRE - Associated Press

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-12M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. The Russian rocket carries astronaut Steven Swanson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

NASA chief tries to reassure Congress amid rift with Russia over Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The shuttle Resolution, once a north Merritt Island landmark, sits deserted in a field off of north Courtney Parkway slowly deteriorating from the elements, April 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Florida Today, Malcolm Denemark)

Fake shuttle mirrors man’s unfilled dream

By STACEY BARCHENGER - Associated Press

Sky no limit for brothers pursuing astronomy

By ROY WENZL - Associated Press

Indiana students get chance to touch moon rock

By SETH SLABAUGH - Associated Press

Va high school team wins NASA design competition

Associated Press

Sky no limit for brothers pursuing astronomy

By ROY WENZL - Associated Press

Mauna Kea telescope to stay on with NASA funding

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 23, 2014 image made from video provided by NASA, astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steven Swanson exit an airlock from the International Space Station. The spacewalk was scheduled to replace a dead computer and get their orbiting home back up to full strength. (AP Photo/NASA)

Spacewalking astronauts complete urgent repair job

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

File-This Oct. 9, 2003, file photo shows John C. Houbolt explaining the size of different rockets required to launch various methods for landing on the moon at Grainger Engineering Library in Urbana, Ill. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing in 1969, has died. He was 95. Houbolt's family confirmed his death Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at a Maine nursing home of complications from Parkinson's disease. (AP Photo/News-Gazette, John Dixon, File)

NASA: Engineer vital to moon landing success dies

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This frame grabbed image from NASA-TV Sunday April 20, 2014 shows the SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule approaching the International Space Station. It is expected to be captured by the Canadarm2, left, from the International Space Station later this morning. The pair at the time of this frame grab are traveling over the southern Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)

Easter morning delivery for space station

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This Nov. 13, 2013 photo made available by NASA shows the Robonaut with legs at a lab in Houston. Each leg, 4 feet, 8 inches long when straight, has seven joints. Instead of feet, there are grippers. Each gripper, or foot, has a light, camera and sensor for building 3-D maps. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Stafford, James Blair)

NASA’s space station Robonaut finally getting legs

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

File-This Oct. 9, 2003, file photo shows John C. Houbolt explaining the size of different rockets required to launch various methods for landing on the moon at Grainger Engineering Library in Urbana, Ill. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing in 1969, has died. He was 95. Houbolt's family confirmed his death Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at a Maine nursing home of complications from Parkinson's disease. (AP Photo/News-Gazette, John Dixon, File)

NASA: Engineer vital to moon landing success dies

Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 12, 2013 photo provided by NASA shows the SpaceX Dragon vehicle inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX has scheduled another launch attempt Friday, April 18, 2014 to the International Space Station. NASA confirmed the launch date Wednesday, April 16, 2014, two days after a last-minute rocket leak delayed the delivery mission. Stormy weather, however, is forecast Friday. Saturday is the backup launch date. (AP Photo/NASA, Kim Shiflett)

SpaceX making Easter delivery of station supplies

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press