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Science, Health and Technology
8:17 am
Thu August 30, 2012

Bonne Terre’s Space Museum Receives Space Shuttle Engine Component

A southeast Missouri museum received $16 million worth of parts from the decommissioned Space Shuttle program, and has a near complete space shuttle engine.

The museum received liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen high pressure turbo pumps, a combustion chamber and the injector head assembly. Unfortunately, they will not receive the nozzle because NASA still uses them.

Space Museum President Earl Mullins says the combustion chamber never flew on a Shuttle mission.

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Under the Microscope
11:22 am
Fri July 27, 2012

Remembering Sally Ride

Credit Kris Husted / KBIA
Linda Godwin is a former NASA astronaut that worked with Sally Ride.

Former astronaut Sally Ride passed away on Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

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