Space Shuttle
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As part of NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiative that aims to stimulate development of privately operated crew vehicles to low Earth orbit, it will dole out grants totaling $269.3 million to four private companies.
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Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission into space
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Bonhams next Space Sale will include a Sokol K spacesuit worn by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov during the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz docking (the end to the Space Race) and a Sokol KV-2 suit worn by Gennadi Strekalov in a 1990 mission to the Mir space station
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Robonaut 2 will become the first humanoid robot to head into space this month when it blasts off aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.