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  • Neuharth, USA Today Founder, Former Gannett CEO, Dies

    Al Neuharth, the free spender and practical jokester who built Gannett Co. into the largest U.S. newspaper publisher and created the country’s biggest-selling daily in USA Today, has died. He was 89.

  • Harvard Doctor Turns Felon After Lure of Insider Trading

    From the age of six, Joseph F. “Chip” Skowron III aspired to be a doctor. At Yale, he earned both a medical degree and a doctorate in molecular and cellular biology, then qualified for Harvard’s elite, five-year residency program. Three years in, Skowron quit medicine for Wall Street. He and two partners started a group of health-care investment funds under the auspices of FrontPoint Partners LLC, a hot new property in the exploding world of hedge funds.

  • Space Shuttle Atlantis Returning From Final Mission

    The space shuttle Atlantis is set to return to Earth today, ending its final scheduled mission as NASA ponders whether to launch it on one last trip next year.

  • Space Shuttle Atlantis to Lift Off on Final Mission Today With Six Aboard

    NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis is set to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida today on its final mission after almost a quarter-century of missions.

  • NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches on Final Mission

    NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida today on its final scheduled journey after almost a quarter-century of missions.

  • Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns From Final Scheduled Mission

    The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth today, ending its final scheduled mission as NASA ponders whether to launch it on one last trip next year.

  • Florida Space Coast Brightens on Jobs Increase

    Brian Medeiros was driving a Budweiser beer truck when he got a phone call saying he’d been offered an aerospace-industry job 15 months after his position at the U.S. space shuttle program was eliminated. He pulled over and sobbed in relief.

  • Final Shuttle Landing Marks NASA Shift

    The space shuttle Atlantis’s scheduled landing in Florida today ends the last of 135 missions over 30 years that delivered the Hubble telescope into orbit and helped build the International Space Station.

  • Atlantis Lands in Florida to End 30-Year Shuttle Program After 135 Flights

    The space shuttle Atlantis landed in Florida today, completing the last of 135 missions over 30 years that delivered the Hubble telescope into orbit and helped build the International Space Station.

  • Watch a $7M NASA Lander Crash and Burst Into Flames

    Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- NASA conducted the first test of its $7 million Morpheus Lander project at Kennedy Space Center on August 9. The test ended in failure, with the spacecraft losing control and its liquid oxygen tank bursting into flames. Video courtesy NASA. (Source: Bloomberg)

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