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(The Associated Press) This artist’s concept provided by NASA shows the launch of the rocket design called the Space Launch System. The design for NASA’s newest behemoth of a rocket harkens back to the giant workhorse liquid rockets that propelled men to the moon. This time, the destinations will be farther and the rocket even more powerful.

NASA unveils next rocket a hybrid shuttle to fly in 2017

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 11:01pm

WASHINGTON — NASA made official on Wednesday its next vision for space travel by unveiling plans for a massive rocket it hopes can blast astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 while laying the foundation for a future trip to Mars.

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Report warns: Space missions injure astronauts, need more in corps

Mark K. Matthews Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 9:19pm

WASHINGTON — Like a veteran NFL team, NASA’s aging astronauts are piling up injuries — raising concern that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its 61-member corps will have enough healthy astronauts available for rigorous six-month shifts aboard the International Space Station, according to a new report.

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ESPN's Stuart Scott says 'nah, dawg' to cancer

Shannon J. Owens Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Friday, August 12, 2011 - 2:59pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Always a man of spoken eloquence, ESPN anchor Stuart Scott has a few words to aim at his nemesis, cancer.

"Nah, dawg, I'm better. I'm stronger. You're not going to beat me."

This is fighting cancer Stuart Scott-style. First, a little verbal jousting. The next step? That would be practicing mixed martial arts a few days after chemotherapy treatments. No joke.

Scott goes through his usual P90X workout series in his Connecticut home just a few days after a series of chemicals are pumped into his body for several hours to kill cancerous -- and healthy -- cells in his body.

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In this July 26, 2005, picture, crowds watch as the space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. It was America’s first manned space mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster.

Now America's focus turns to the space station

Scott Powers Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 10:15pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- If the American public can't get excited over research breakthroughs in salmonella vaccines, how microgravity affects the human immune system and cosmic-particles analysis, this could be a difficult decade for supporters of NASA's manned spaceflight program.

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Workers make their way off the Rotating Service Structure at the Kennedy Space Center Thursday, July 7, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch on Friday, July 8 and is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Shuttle flight to be historic, but goal routine

Scott Powers Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 10:18am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This week's launch of space shuttle Atlantis came about almost as an afterthought.

If weather permits, Atlantis will roar aloft at 11:26 a.m. Friday -- culminating the 30-year run of what aerospace experts call the most amazing space vehicle ever built, and paying homage to the 14 astronauts who died aboard Challenger and Columbia and the 355 others who returned safely during 134 previous missions.

It might not happen on schedule. NASA officials said Wednesday that an incoming tropical wave offers a 70 percent chance that the launch will be scrubbed. If so, they'll try again Saturday or Sunday morning.

And whenever it flies, Atlantis' final mission hardly compares in complexity or significance to its previous flights that launched satellites and space probes; carried astronauts and components to the International Space Station; and ventured more than 400miles above Earth to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Its four-member crew is the smallest since the earliest shuttles in 1982: commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim.

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Woods will not play in British Open

Jeff Shain Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 5:16pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Scratch the British Open off Tiger Woods' entry list, too.

Woods officially took his name out of next week's Open on Tuesday, saying doctors still haven't given him the thumbs-up to return from knee and Achilles tendon injuries that first cropped up at the Masters.

"Unfortunately, I've been advised that I should not play in the British Open," Woods said on his website. "As I stated at the AT&T National, I am only going to come back when I'm 100 percent ready. I do not want to risk further injury. That's different for me, but I'm being smarter this time."

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