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The media tours the Space Shuttle Exhibit at the National Museum of the United States Air Force on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 in Dayton, Ohio. The $1.7 million walk-through, mock-up of a space shuttle was built for the museum after it was unable to secure one of NASA's three existing space shuttle orbiters after NASA retired the program. The exhibit opens Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Dayton Daily News, Ty Greenlees)

Space shuttle display opens at Ohio museum

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In this Tuesday, July 16, 2013 image provided by NASA, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano participates in a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. A final report issued Wedesday, Feb. 26, 2014 by NASA says it could have prevented the near-drowning of the spacewalking astronaut on July 16, 2013. According to the report, Parmitano's helmet had also leaked one week earlier at the end of his first spacewalk. The report says the space station team misdiagnosed the first failure and should have delayed the second spacewalk until the problem was understood. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA could have prevented spacewalker’s close call

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This handout artist conception provided by NASA depicts multiple-transiting planet systems. (AP)

NASA announces ‘mother lode’ of new planets: 715

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

File - In this Feb. 14, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama tours a local farm that has been affected by drought with Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown, left, Joe Del Bosque, Empresas Del Bosque, Inc., right, and Maria Gloria Del Bosque, Empresas Del Bosque, Inc., in Los Banos, Calif. NASA scientists have begun deploying satellites and other advanced technology to help California water officials assess the state's record drought and better manage it, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

NASA turns research to California drought

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

News from around Wisconsin at 5:28 a.m. CST

Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by Marquette University, Robert Bishop, Opus Dean of Marquette University College of Engineering, left, senior Devin Turner, center, and mechanical engineering graduate student Peter Jorgensen, pose for photos holding components of Marquette’s first CubeSat satellite, at the Marquette Spacecraft Engineering Lab on the university’s campus in Milwaukee. Marquette University is one of 16 institutions that received permission from NASA this month to launch small, coffee mug-sized satellites into space to collect data.(AP Photo/Marquette University, Jesse Lee)

NASA OKs Marquette for launch of tiny satellite

By DINESH RAMDE - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 photo released by NASA shows crews testing a test version of Orion's forward bay cover, NASA's next-generation space capsule. NASA and the Navy suspended the test Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 off the coast of San Diego after a problem was discovered. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA suspends space capsule recovery test in ocean

Associated Press

USM project headed to space station

Associated Press

In this photo provided by NASA, the Cygnus supply ship is released from the International Space Station, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Cygnus is filled with garbage and will burn up when it plunges through the atmosphere Wednesday. Orbital Sciences Corp. launched the capsule last month from Virginia under a $1.9 billion contract with NASA. The Cygnus delivered 3,000 pounds of goods, including belated Christmas gifts for the six-man crew and hundreds of ants for a student experiment. (AP Photo/NASA)

Supply ship departs space station after 5 weeks

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Indiana-born astronaut Jerry Ross to be honored

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo. On nearly 150 flights, U.S. commercial air carriers have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realized their mistake in time, according to a search by The Associated Press of government safety databases and media reports since the early 1990s. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley, File)

Reports detail pilots heading to wrong airports

By JOAN LOWY - Associated Press

Google subsidiary to run nearby federal airfield

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND MEMBER EXCHANGE.; FOR SUNDAY, FEB. 9 - FILE - This artist's rendering provided by Sierra Nevada Space Systems shows the company's proposed Dream Chaser spacecraft docking with the International Space Station. The rise of commercial space raises questions about the future of Houston as Space City, which for the entire history of U.S. spaceflight has been responsible for training and managing the flights of U.S. astronauts. (AP Photo/Sierra Nevada Space Systems, File)

A space commercializes, where does Houston fit?

By ERIC BERGER - Associated Press

Indiana doctor picked for NASA Mars simulation

By STEVE WARDEN - Associated Press

Sky-High costs: The A-3 tower at Stennis Space Center is designed to test how rocket engines operate at altitudes of up to 100,000 feet. Although NASA is compelled to complete the $350 million project, the tower will be mothballed. (NASA)

Golden Hammer: $350 million NASA project to be completed, then mothballed because of lack of need

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Gillette company teams with NASA

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In a photo provided by NASA a United Launch Alliance Atlas V with TDRS-L atop, arrives at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41. The unmanned rocket is set to blast off Thursday night, Jan. 23, 2014, with the latest, third-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. (AP Photo/Daniel Casper )

NASA launches newest communication satellite

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This artist rendering released by NASA shows the NASA rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars. Opportunity landed on the red planet on Jan. 24, 2004 and is still exploring. Its twin Spirit stopped communicating in 2010. (AP Photo/NASA)

Opportunity still roving on Mars after a decade

By ALICIA CHANG - Associated Press

WPI selects former NASA scientist as president

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2013 file photo, Typhoon Haiyan survivors walk through ruins in the village of Maraboth, in the Philippines. Last year was tied for the fourth warmest year on record around the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday released its global temperature figures for 2013. The average world temperature was 58.12 degrees (14.52 Celsius) tying with 2003 for the fourth warmest since 1880.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

NOAA: World in 2013 was 4th hottest on record

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press