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Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Right now at Space Center Houston, one of the original Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Boeing 747s is being joined to the Space Shuttle mockup Independence. The two aircraft will form part of a new display at the space center.

The visitor center at Johnson Space Center is getting one heck of a new exhibit. Say hello to the Space Shuttle Transporter 747, and eventually the Space Shuttle mock-up Independence.

After many months of paper shuffling and countless weeks of submitting written requests and hours of planning events and activities, a piece of history is finally coming to the Cross Plains library. One of the tires off of the Space Shuttle Columbia will be making at least a three year tour stop in the Big Country.

The latest technology in cars is a sports car/chopper. It looks like a dragster but is a little more street legal. The work being done to produce these cars or traycycles as they are known is by former space shuttle employees.

Well here in West Texas we are entering something like 50 days of 100+ temperatures.  Those temps with lack of rain are wreaking havoc all over the state and lakes, streams and rivers are drying up fast.  This is the case in Nacogdoches where the lake there is 9ft low and has exposed parts of the Columbia Space Shuttle.

Atlantis final mission is not without country music wake up call. Mostly Classic Rock or Solid Gold Rock and Roll is what the astronauts get awakened with on most missions. This past Sunday, the team woke up to Keith Whitley and his song "Days Go by".

The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off for its final mission Friday morning. Thousands gathered to watch the blast off, the final of the 30-year-old shuttle program, CNN reported.

Although the NASA is going to moth-ball the space shuttles, it is still jaw dropping at the magnitude of what takes place to prepare for a launch. The size of the hangers, transport truck and launch pad. This is one cool video!

You may remember, or maybe not, that Endeavour was to launch from Florida last Friday.  Yes, that was the same day as the Royal Wedding so it took a back seat.  However, the launch was delayed for mechanical reasons.

The NASA space shuttle program is about to come to and end, sadly.  The retired shuttles will have new homes, but Houston is not one of them.

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the space shuttle being on it's last couple of missions and wondered aloud what was next for NASA. Well it seems they've already been working on the shuttle replacement and while it's still in it's infancy, the model is being built and then will move on to more rigorous testing.