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2 Richardson teachers part of NASA flight project

By JULIETA CHIQUILLO - Associated Press

3 rockets launched from NASA’s Wallops facility

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NASA postpones rocket launches from Wallops

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Rocket launches scheduled for Wallops Island

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 3, 2013, file photo, recording artist Beyonce performs at Super Bowl XLVII, in New Orleans. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Beyonce slammed for using sound clips from Challenger tragedy in ‘XO’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video provided by NASA, astronauts Rick Mastracchio, top, and Michael Hopkins work to repair an external cooling line on the International Space Station on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, 260 miles above Earth. The external cooling line — one of two — shut down Dec. 11. The six-man crew had to turn off all nonessential equipment, including experiments. (Associated Press/NASA)

Astronauts make rare Christmas Eve spacewalk

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

** FILE ** This May 23, 2010, file image provided by NASA shows the International Space Station with the Earth in the background. The image was photographed by an STS-132 crew member on space shuttle Atlantis after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, NASA decided to schedule a series of urgent spacewalks to fix a broken cooling line at the International Space Station. The first is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA pushing hard to get back into space game

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this image provided by NASA the International Space Station is shown with the backdrop of Earth. The image was photographed by an STS-132 crew member on space shuttle Atlantis after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation on May 23, 2010. The astronauts aboard the International Space Station dimmed the lights, turned off unnecessary equipment and put off science work Thursday Dec. 12, 2013 as NASA scrambled to figure out what's wrong with one of two identical cooling loops that shut down Wednesday. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA orders urgent spacewalk repairs at station

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

While the Senate debates the bipartisan budget plan, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a longtime deficit hawk, outlines his annual &#8220;Wastebook,&#8221; which points a critical finger at billions of dollars in questionable government spending, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Gov’t wasted $30 billion on ‘pillownauts,’ crystal goblets — buying human urine!

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This publicly provided image by the European Space Agency ESA shows an artist&#8217;s impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov&#8211;Gerasimenko. The image is not to scale; the Rosetta spacecraft measures 32 m across including the solar arrays, while the comet nucleus is thought to be about 4 km wide. The European Space Agency has set a tentative date for the first landing of a spacecraft on a comet. ESA says Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013 its Rosetta probe will wake up from hibernation Jan. 20 before chasing down comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. If all goes according to plan, Rosetta will launch a lander onto the surface of the comet on Nov. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/ESA, C.Carreau)

Space probe on course to land on mile-wide comet

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

The Mars rover Curiosity, pictured here in a self-portrait, has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on the red planet that may have teemed with microbes for tens of millions of years, far longer than scientists had imagined, new research suggests. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA: Ancient Mars lake may have supported life

By Alicia Chang - Associated Press

Star Wars planet Tatooine.

Scientists could unlock mystery of life beyond Earth within a decade

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

A full moon sets over Mount Susitna in Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)

NASA sends seeds to moon to test vegetable garden

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by NASA, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA&#8217;s Maven spacecraft launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA&#8217;s Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)

NASA under fire for bonus payments to contractors

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

A full moon rises behind the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) spacecraft on board at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Maven is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. (AP Photo/National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Bill Ingalls)

NASA to launch to Mars: ‘Are we alone in the universe?’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-11M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. The Russian rocket carries Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and U.S. astronaut Rick Mastracchio who will deliver an Olympic torch to space as part of the ongoing Olympic torch relay. The torch will be brought back along with the station's current crew. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Olympic torch blasts into space as prelude to Russia Games

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times