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/ 12:05 a.m. CT (0505 GMT)
Apollo engines conserved: After two and a half years of careful conservation, the Apollo F-1 engine parts recovered by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos are now preserved and ready for exhibit. Conservators at the Cosmosphere in Kansas were able to identify that the Saturn V components powered at least three moon missions, including Apollo 11. Some of the engine parts are destined for the Smithsonian, while the placement of others is still being determined.
/ 3:30 a.m. CT (0830 GMT)
'Nod' of approval: The Lancaster JetHawks will hold their annual aerospace appreciation night on Sunday (Aug. 9), this year honoring seven-time shuttle astronaut Jerry Ross. As part of the celebration, the baseball team will give away 1,000 bobbleheads depicting Ross flying the B-1 Lancer bomber that he tested at nearby Edwards Air Force Base. Ross is the 11th aerospace legend to be honored by the California minor league team, including astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, Buzz Aldrin and Hoot Gibson.
/ 9:45 p.m. CT (0245 GMT Aug 8)
Astronaut Wives 'Abort' ABC's docudrama "The Astronaut Wives Club" aired its third to last episode Thursday (Aug. 6), covering the aftermath of the Apollo 1 fire that in January 1967 claimed the lives of Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom. How well did the eighth episode, entitled "Abort," follow real space history? A look at the "A-OK!" and "Abort!" scenes from this week's show.
/ 12:15 p.m. CT (1715 GMT)
Astronaut farmers: What is deep red, leafy, and grows 250 miles high? The latest snack for the astronauts on the International Space Station. Using Veggie, NASA's plant growth system, flight engineer Scott Kelly grew and harvested leaves of "Outredgeous" red romaine lettuce. On Monday (Aug. 10), Kelly and Expedition 44 crewmate Kjell Lindgren became the first U.S. astronauts to (officially) eat space-grown greens, following earlier cosmonaut farmers.
/ 3:00 p.m. CT (2000 GMT)
Space Sessions: Amid commanding a crew on the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield found time to write, sing and record songs inspired by and about life in space. "Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can," the resulting album, will be released on Oct. 9 by Warner Music. The first album to be primarily performed and recorded in space, "Sessions" includes Hadfield's first single, "Feet Up," and his zero-g take on "Space Oddity."
/ 3:20 p.m. CT (2020 GMT)
Launch set for Shuttle-747 display: Space Center Houston on Wednesday (Aug 12) set the opening date for Independence Plaza, its $12 million, eight-story-tall exhibit of a space shuttle replica on top of NASA's first Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The nonprofit center will invite its guests to tour inside both the orbiter and modified Boeing 747 jetliner beginning Jan. 23, 2016. Both vehicles will include exhibits dedicated to telling the history of the space shuttle era.
/ 5:55 p.m. CT (2255 GMT)
Astronaut Wives 'The Dark Side': The ten-part docudrama "The Astronaut Wives Club" aired its penultimate episode Thursday (Aug. 13). In "The Dark Side," the ABC series flew from the Earth to the moon, focusing on the events that surrounded the Apollo 7 and Apollo 8 missions. How well did the ninth episode follow real space history? A review of the "A-OK!" and "Abort!" scenes from the show.
/ 12:05 p.m. CT (1705 GMT)
Suits rebooted: With almost 9,500 backers donating nearly $720,000, the Smithsonian's first Kickstarter campaign has succeeded at funding not just the conservation and display of Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit worn on the moon, which was the crowd-funding effort's original goal, but also Alan Shepard's silver Mercury spacesuit that he wore on the first American crewed spaceflight. For their pledges, backers of the "Reboot the Suit" campaign will be updated about the conservation work as it progresses.
/ 12:05 p.m. CT (1705 GMT)
Astronaut Wives 'Landing': "The Astronaut Wives Club," ABC's 10-part series about the spouses of America's first spacemen, came to its end on Thursday night (Aug. 20) with a finale titled "Landing." Set between the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing and the problem-plagued Apollo 13 mission in 1970, the episode included the only cameo by a real Astro-family member, Apollo 14 astronaut Stu Roosa's daughter, Rosemary. How well did the tenth episode follow space history? A look at some of the "A-OK!" and "Abort!" scenes from "The Astronaut Wives Club" conclusion.
/ 1:00 p.m. CT (1800 GMT)
'8 Days or Bust' +50: NASA's third manned Gemini mission, which orbited the Earth half a century ago this week, set a world duration record while demonstrating that an astronaut crew could work in space long enough to fly to the moon and back. Gemini 5 crewmates Gordo Cooper and Pete Conrad also set another American first: designing and wearing the first mission patch. The emblem, featuring a covered wagon, also included a hastily hidden slogan.
/ 6:15 p.m. CT (2315 GMT)
Orbiters inside out: Last week's removal of the water storage tanks from deep inside the space shuttle Endeavour is now complete at the California Science Center. Joined by the same tanks retrieved from inside the shuttle Atlantis in May, the reactivated artifacts are destined to be launched to the International Space Station to enhance the outpost's water supply system. This photo gallery provides a behind-the-scenes look at the water tanks' extraction.
/ 10:20 a.m. CT (1520 GMT)
LEGO to launch: Andreas Mogensen is set to become Denmark's first astronaut to fly in space when he launches to the International Space Station on Wednesday (Sept. 2). The 38 year old aerospace engineer's mission for the European Space Agency (ESA), dubbed "iriss," will be just 10 days long but will include a full slate of science and technology demonstrations. Mogensen is also taking along a crew of LEGO "iriss" minifigures, as made by the Danish toy company, to support educational outreach activities.
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