She has also traveled to Abu Dhabi to report on the pre-planned sustainable city Masdar, tasted wine made by robots in California's Napa Valley, explored four space capsules, covered the privatization of space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and gone behind the bars of San Quentin Prison to see how the institution taught inmates to make mini satellites.

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"I congratulate the three companies for their selection, " said Ed Mango, CCP manager at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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It shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in August 2010.

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The Pittsburg State number 4 team, winner in the college division, will receive a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to view a Space Shuttle launch.

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Just this past month, Vincent finally got permission to shoot in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, home of the soon-to-be-closed space shuttle program, and Vincent's holy grail.

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Here in her modest condo, minutes from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Ms. Simony maintains a literary time capsule filled with faded cookbooks and frayed magazine articles that date back to the 1920s.

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Florida's request comes as NASA is working to revamp the Kennedy Space Center following the end of the shuttle program last year.

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Unsettled weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida prompted NASA to call off today's planned landing, and the shuttle's orbit will not allow another landing attempt in Florida until tomorrow morning.

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At Kennedy Space Center, the home base of NASA's shuttle fleet, all employees were allowed to return to work Thursday.

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