Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week - June 9, 2013

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Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit Enters Final Countdown to Launch

collectSPACE.com/Robert Z. Pearlman

The retired space shuttle Atlantis and the $100 million exhibit that bears its name is on schedule to open to the public on June 29, 2013 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. [Full Story]

NEXT: Rover Finds New Evidence That Ancient Mars Was Habitable

Rover Finds New Evidence That Ancient Mars Was Habitable

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.

New evidence from NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity further supports the idea that ancient Mars had liquid water and would have been habitable to life. [Full Story]

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