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Tal Ramon, son of space shuttle Columbia astronaut Ilan Ramon, plays for the crowd Thursday, Jan 25, 2018, at Kennedy Space Center during NASA's annual day of remembrance in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)
January 26, 2018, 7:57 am
With tribute by Israeli astronaut’s son, NASA honors 7 killed aboard Columbia
15 years after space shuttle disaster, son of Ilan Ramon plays his music at Florida memorial for fallen crew
By Marcia Dunn
US President Donald Trump points to the sun as he arrives to view the solar eclipse, on August 21, 2017, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
December 12, 2017, 8:52 am
Trump tells NASA to send Americans to Moon
US president wants to establish foundation for eventual trip to Mars and ‘perhaps someday to many worlds beyond’
By Jerome Cartillier
In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, file photo, Buzz Aldrin, former NASA Astronaut and Apollo 11 Pilot, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness hearing on human exploration goals and commercial space competitiveness. (AP/Susan Walsh)
December 1, 2016, 4:50 pm
Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole
Second man on moon said to be ‘ailing’ during private visit as part of tourist group taken by plane to New Zealand
By AP
Former US astronaut and the second man on the moon Buzz Aldrin speaks at the International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem on October 12, 2015. (screen capture: Newzulu)
October 16, 2015, 6:43 am
Buzz Aldrin touches down in Jerusalem
Former astronaut makes an appearance at International Astronautical Congress, held this year in the capital
By Ben Sales
Reflecting on his experience as he emerged from the craft into the daylight on the Expedition 24 mission's second spacewalk, astronaut Doug Wheelock said "the colors of the Earth just explode at you as you exit toward the planet. Notice what looks like scorch marks on the hatch thermal cover, the effect of vacuum and atomic oxygen on the threads and thread sealant used on the thermal cover. The 'smell' of space follows suit, I’ve heard it described like burnt cake or cookies, or like the smell of an extinguished match." (photo credit: NASA/Flash90)
August 25, 2012, 11:44 pm
Key dates in history of space exploration
On October 4th, 1957, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, was launched by Soviet Union; 12 years later, Armstrong’s Apollo landed on the moon
By AP
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)
August 25, 2012, 11:38 pm
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 TOI staff
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