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Star Trek Shuttle Scheduled for Display at Space Center Houston

The Star Trek shuttlecraft Galileo is making a landing in Houston, coming to rest at Space Center Houston as a permanent exhibit. Star Trek fans may remember the ill-fated voyage of Galileo, sent out from the Enterprise to explore a star system with a small crew led by First Officer Spock. In the e ... More >>

Attack of the Drones: Texas Could be a Top Drone Producer, Thanks to NASA

If you talk about being from Texas, people automatically think of the stuff us Texans are famous for -- oil, cattle, more oil, guys with really great mustaches and awesome cowboy boots, riding horses to school -- but in the coming years, they may also think Texas, land of the drones. (Ooh, and then ... More >>

NASA Budget Cuts Could Hit Johnson Space Center (First No Shuttle, Now This?)

In recent years, NASA has been hit pretty hard, and another hit may be coming. We're a long ways off from the days when JFK told the nation that the United States would put a man on the moon, and in recent years, what with the Great Recession, space exploration seems to have taken a backseat. Hell, ... More >>

Nerd Humor: NASA Gets Clever With "Why the World Didn't End" and Gangnam Style Parody Videos

Nerds have a sense of humor and when those nerds also have cool toys and a desire to get people more interested in their world, they can come up with some pretty damn clever concoctions. In this case, the nerds in question are at our own Johnson Space Center where they have created a couple of video ... More >>

Top 7 Promotional Music Gimmicks -- Both Used & Unused

One of the most interesting things in the music business is how managers and record companies promote and market their artists. Sometimes they do a great job, and other times they fail. When they do fail, their like that hickey you got three weeks ago -- still there. But, like a hickey, people even ... More >>

Summer Sports Slam

Retired Space Shuttles: Will Houston Get Shut Out?

A space shuttle on display​Discovery has landed safely, ending its last mission of a long and fruitful career. It's expected to spend its retirement at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum branch in Virginia. Two other space shuttles are retiring this year -- the Endeavour and Atlantis -- and 2 ... More >>

SpaceCenter Houston's Rocket Park Fills In A Missing Piece

Photo via CollectSpaceThe Gemini-Titan, ready for refurbishing​Last week, with little fanfare, a truck rolled up to the Johnson Space Center with a unique cargo.It was a replica of a Gemini-Titan rocket with capsule, and it means SpaceCenter's Rocket Park will fill in a missing piece of JSC histor ... More >>

Unidentified Male, 22, Bayou Body Count No. 160

No charges filed in deadly shooting​An argument turned fatal in a neighborhood near the Johnson Space Center Sunday morning.An unidentified male went to a home in the 1900 block of Richvale about 9:40 a.m. to "confront" several people "about an earlier disturbance," police say.The man, whose ident ... More >>

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Don't Believe the Hype

Houston's Most Overrated Attractions

Health Dept. Roundup: 77056-77063

​We're forging ahead here on Health Department Roundup, trekking through the city's zip codes one by one. If you live, work or, more importantly, eat in 77056-77063 (mainly an area just west of the Loop and a few pockets near Aldine, the Johnson Space Center and Hobby Airport), this is your he ... More >>

"From Rice Fields to Rockets: JSC in Houston's Bay Area, the Journey in Sights and Sounds"

Explore life living next door to astronauts

George Lucas Comes To Space Center Houston, Sorta

Photo courtesy Space Center HoustonScience fact and science fiction come face-to-face at the "Cinema of George Lucas" and "Live the Adventure" exhibits currently at Space Center Houston. Comprised of  the personal memorabilia of filmmaker George Lucas (much of it never seen before in public), a ... More >>

Ike's Effects Reach Into Space

Saturday Afternoon: Bay Area Rally at Space Center Houston

Ballunar Liftoff Festival

NASA hosts 100-plus hot air balloons

We Truly Do Live in a Spaced City

What, No South Fondren?

We Know What You Should Do This Summer

Your guide to beaches, water parks, day trips, festivals and more

Not Rocket Science

NASA can get political -- for Tom DeLay

The Real Ramona

A book character springs to life

Coming Down

A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

Coming Down

A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

A-cute Sexism

Plus: Firefighters to the Rescue, Shut Her Up, Hair-ied Reporters

Space Center & Me

Or, how I learned to stop caring and accept the dumb

RV Xmas

In which our intrepid reporter goes searching for the heart of America on a trailer pad. And finds disappointment, isolation, kindness and a great way to cook himself a turkey.

Weary of the Wows

A Houston junket and the jaded of Hollywood

NASA Gets Weird

Night & Day

June 24 - 30, 1999

Night & Day

August 27 - September 2, 1998

Space Odyssey

Tom Moser wants to put Texas on the map as a commercial launch pad for cargo-carrying rockets

Night & Day

July 2 - 8, 1998

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Rocket Men

Two starry-eyed entrepreneurs shoot for the moon -- or at least for suborbital space

The X(erox) Files

Erin O'Shey and her friends thought the truth needed to be out there

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Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Reverse Sting

A Lightning Strike target turns the tape on the FBI

Letters

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Last Strike?

The FBI's NASA sting operation may finally be headed to court

Struck Twice

David Proctor says he's getting a stiff sentence for speaking out

The Cloud Over Lightning Strike

Did the U.S. government spend $2 million just to nail little guys like David Proctor?

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