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Jul 21, 2011
The End of the Space Shuttle ProgramToday, as the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down and returned its crew to Earth, the 30-year-long space shuttle program came to its end.
Jun 01, 2011
Planetary Society Welcomes Home Shuttle LIFE PassengersThe Planetary Society welcomes home space shuttle Endeavour and the microscopic passengers it carried in Shuttle LIFE, an experiment designed to test aspects of the transpermia hypothesis -- the ability of microbial life to survive an interplanetary voyage.
May 25, 2011
Planetary Society Has Role with OSIRIS-REx MissionNASA has selected the OSIRIS-REx mission as the next New Frontiers mission, and the Planetary Society is excited to announce that it will be involved with many public outreach activities connected with the mission.
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