But they were not the last. NASA -- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched six more Apollo flights.

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The administration says a new private space industry could create ten thousand new jobs across the country in five years.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, launched Columbia from Kennedy Space Center on April twelfth nineteen eighty-one.

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On August 20, 1977, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the Voyager space probe from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Experts are also taking a fresh look at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 1996 Project Orion, a "space broom" concept to fry space trash with ground-based lasers.

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His work is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but he is first to admit the chances of actually making it onto a space probe are slim.

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