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• Since he grew up in a community of other astronaut families, Andy Aldrin thought having an astronaut father who worked for NASA “was normal.” Andy Aldrin sat with Brendan Byrnes to talk about having an astronaut dad and Apollo 11.
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• The government shutdown has rendered most of the Kennedy Space Center’s 2,000 employees unable to work. The impact of the shutdown on Florida’s Space Coast may turn out to be long-lasting.
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• Jean Wright left the candy business to become a seamstress for the Space Shuttle. Her job was sewing the thermal protection blankets for the space shuttles to help keep it cool during the intense hear during its missions.
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• Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to visit Kennedy Space Center Thursday.
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• When NASA’s Space Launch System blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center for the first time, the capsule will be empty. Acting Director Robert Lightfoot announced the decision after a review of the first launch of the massive rocket.
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• NASA and its academic partners are about to do something they’ve never done before: launch a spacecraft, rendezvous with an asteroid, collect a sample of regolith, or dust, from the surface and return it to Earth.
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• The heat shield for NASA’s Orion deep-spacecraft arrived at Kennedy Space Center, ahead of a 2018 test flight.
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