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Obama Says Devastation Unlike Any He Has Ever Seen
By not in system - AOL NewsTUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Expressing amazement at the destruction all around him, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped through the wreckage left by rampaging tornadoes and pledged help to those who survived but lost their homes in a terrifying flash. Said the president: "I've never seen devastation like this." "We're going to make sure you're not forgotten," Obama said as he and first lady Michelle Obama walked the streets of a reeling neighborhood. He said that although nothing could be done for the many who were killed - "they're alongside God at this point" - Obama assured support for ...
NASA Delays Space Shuttle Endeavour's Last Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit, disappointing huge crowds converging on the area for the afternoon liftoff. President Barack Obama and his family were planning to watch Endeavour blast off. It would have been the first time in NASA history that a sitting president and his family witnessed a launch. Already at Cape Canaveral for the liftoff was wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wife of the shuttle's commander. Launch commentator George Diller said the next try likely ...
Excitement Builds for Next-to-Last Space Shuttle Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It's still a day before space shuttle Endeavour is set to soar one last time. But already, the excitement level is approaching an all-time high. It's the next-to-last shuttle flight, as well as Endeavour's final voyage. Add to that the presence of the commander's wounded congresswoman wife, and Friday's visit by the president and his family. Forecasters, meanwhile, were slightly more pessimistic Thursday. Still, there's a 70 percent chance of good weather for Friday's 3:47 p.m. launch. Endeavour commander Mark Kelly is married to Gabrielle Giffords, who arrived in ...
NASA Braces for Giffords, Obama, Huge Launch Crowd
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left hospitals behind Wednesday for the first time since her tragic shooting nearly four months ago and traveled to NASA territory for the next-to-last space shuttle launch with her husband in command. "Gabby is looking forward to some time away from the rehab center & the chance to see Captain Mark Kelly launch again!" Giffords' staff posted on her Facebook page. Space shuttle Endeavour is due to blast off Friday afternoon with Kelly at the helm. It will be Endeavour's final voyage after 19 years of spaceflight, as the shuttle era nears the ...
Tragic Romance Eclipses 2nd-to-Last Space Shuttle Flight
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Looking back on the horror of that Saturday in January, this seems miraculous today: that Mark Kelly would indeed command the next-to-last space shuttle flight and that his wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, would be here in Florida watching. Yet that is what is expected to happen Friday. Handout / AP Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, are shown in an undated file photo. Doctors have cleared the recovering congresswoman to attend her husband's shuttle launch on Friday. The Kelly-Giffords ordeal has been a national drama since ...
White House: First Family to Attend Shuttle Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- President Barack Obama and his family will attend next week's launch of Endeavour, NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight commanded by the husband of critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. A White House official said Wednesday that the president would be at the April 29 liftoff, along with wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha. Commander Mark Kelly will lead the six-man shuttle crew to the International Space Station. He has said he hopes his wife will be there when he blasts off, and is awaiting her doctors' final approval. Giffords, a Democrat from ...
NASA to Send Shuttles to Fla., Calif., Suburban DC
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- 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. It was an emotional day - the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle launch and the 50th anniversary of man's first journey into space by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Just two more shuttle flights remain, and the head of NASA choked up as he revealed the new homes for the spacecraft in an event at the Kennedy Space ...
3-2-1 ... and Liftoff: Manned Space Flights Mark 50th Anniversary
By Lee Speigel - AOL News"Three ... 2 ... 1 ...ignition ... and liftoff." With those famous words first heard in Russian and then English, rocket engines burst into life, sending manned vehicles through the extreme "g" forces of vertical acceleration into Earth orbit and into the history books. On this date 20 years apart, two milestones were reached that set the tone for human space exploration. The Soviet Union took the first leap, surprising the world on April 12, 1961, launching air force pilot Yuri Gagarin into orbit -- a single 108-minute loop around Earth -- making him the first human to fly in space. And 20 ...
Giffords Staff Planning for Space Shuttle Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsPHOENIX -- Aides for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords are preparing for her to travel to Florida to watch her husband's space shuttle launch at the end of the month, although doctors have yet to clear her to go, her office said Friday. Planning has been ongoing for Giffords' "anticipated attendance" of the April 29 launch of the space shuttle Endeavor, which will be commanded by her husband, Capt. Mark Kelly, the congresswoman's office said in a statement. Harrison, AFP / Getty Images Rep. Gabrielle Giffords staffers are making preparations for her to watch her husband's space shuttle ...
Yuri Gagarin, First Man In Space [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL Newshttp://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=995225&pid=995224&uts=1302032919 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Yuri Gagarin, First Man In Space April 12 marks the 50th anniversary of the first human flight into outer space. Yuri Gagarin, a 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut, made history when his Vostok 1 spacecraft successfully launched and spent 1 hour and 48 minutes in Earth orbit on April 12, 1961. He became famous ...
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