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The shuttle Endeavour's three main engines were installed this week as workers prepare the ship's two solid rocket boosters and external tank for the program's final scheduled launch.

A Lake Orion Middle School student's art work will soon be orbiting the earth as part of NASA's final shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

Hundreds of engineers and technicians working on NASA's space shuttles received layoff notices this week from United Space Alliance.

Former astronaut Charlie Precourt, 55, serves as the general manager for the NASA Space Launch Systems branch of ATK in northern Utah.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Hundreds of people who work in the space shuttle program now know who's losing jobs. Tuesday, United Space Alliance (USA) told 902 workers at Kennedy Space Center that they have two months left on the job and there are many more layoffs to come.

LISBON - U.S. Rep. Charles Wilson Jr. sponsored an amendment that would allow Ohio to be considered as a final resting place for one of the soon-to-be retired space shuttles.

Space artist Robert McCall passed away on February 26th of this year. Bob Mahoney recounts how a particular painting by McCall inspired him into the space industry and ponders, in light of recent developments, when the artist's grand vistas of a spacefaring civilization might become reality.

Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin Demonstrate New Docking System Technology

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio museum's bid to land 1 of NASA's retiring space shuttles has survived a congressional attempt by southern lawmakers to give their states the edge.

Workers started assembling twin solid rocket boosters this week to help power Endeavour toward orbit in February on the final scheduled launch of the space shuttle program.