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FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24070088-13762,00.html

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) – Astronauts flew drunk on at least two occasions despite warnings from doctors and colleagues that they posed a flight safety risk, according to a report commissioned by NASA.  

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/07/27/nasa.woes/

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking floated free in zero gravity Thursday, becoming the first person with a disability to have the experience.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/26/hawking.flight.ap/

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — What would happen if an astronaut became mentally unstable in space and, say, destroyed the ship’s oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard?

 http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/02/23/astronaut.plan.ap/

At Launch Complex 39, Atlantis is awaiting further preparation for her March 15th liftoff. NASA reports:

Atlantis at the Pad

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Space Shuttle Atlantis has arrived at Launch Pad 39A following a slow and careful trek from the enormous Vehicle Assembly Building.

Poised atop the mobile launcher platform and carried by the crawler transporter, the shuttle assembly began the 3.4-mile journey at 8:19 a.m. and was ‘hard down’ at the pad at 3:09 p.m. EST.

Meanwhile, the S3/S4 integrated truss segments are scheduled to be installed in the orbiter’s payload bay Feb. 19.

Space Shuttle Status Report - 02.16.07

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Terry Virts is replacing accused kidnapper Lisa Nowak as STS-117 capcom.

ORLANDO, Fla.  —  An astronaut drove from Houston to Florida, donned a disguise and confronted a woman she believed was romantically involved with a space shuttle pilot she was in love with, police said. She was charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250415,00.html

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/orl-bk-nasaastronaut0507feb05,0,6104316.story?coll=orl-home-headlines