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Topic: space travel

February 22, 2013
12:59 am

Image of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi as astronaut uploaded to Axe space contest site by April 6 (Screenshot)

Morsi to the moon

President’s former April 6 allies want to send him to space as protest

February 1, 2013
8:08 am

The crew of the space shuttle Columbia, seen in June 2003 (photo credit: AP/NASA/File)

If a space shuttle is doomed, do you tell the crew?

Senior NASA official says space agency ignored chances to get a closer look at Columbia’s damaged heat shield

By Seth Borenstein

January 31, 2013
9:17 am

Rona Ramon (left) visits a school in Modiin named after her husband, Ilan Ramon, along with two NASA astronauts in February 2008 (photo credit: Flash90)

Decade after shuttle disaster, Rona Ramon still trying to cope

Ilan Ramon’s widow says she is trying to find new meaning in life, but struggling to deal with the loss of her son six years after her husband disintegrated on reentry to earth

By Aron Heller

January 27, 2013
4:23 pm

The Israel Space Agency's Facebook app (Photo credit: Courtesy)

First ‘Space Week’ gives down-to-earth look at the stars

The near heavens are atop the agenda, with lectures, exhibitions, and a major international conference taking place here

By David Shamah

January 14, 2013
6:53 pm

US won’t build a ‘death star’

In marvelously geeky response to popular online petition, official says administration ‘does not support blowing up planets’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

August 25, 2012
11:38 pm

This July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, the first men to land on the moon, plant the U.S. flag on the lunar surface. (photo credit: AP Photo/NASA)

Neil Armstrong, first man on moon, 82

Astronaut visited Israel in 2007, told young space hopefuls in Haifa that space travel proved ‘the human species, all of us, is not forever chained to the planet Earth’

By AP and Times of Israel staff

February 1, 2012
11:02 pm

‘Spaceman’ Bill McArthur gives Israeli kids firsthand mission report

Astronaut William S. McArthur visited Israel’s National Science Museum, and told over 200 kids about his adventures “up above”

By David de Piciotto