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Past, future to meet with Jamestown-NASA partnership
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AP Worldstream
01-27-2006
Dateline: HAMPTON, Virginia
NASA and planners of the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English colony in America announced Friday they are working together to tie the 1607 founding of the Jamestown settlement to modern space exploration.
The space agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton and Jamestown 2007 will collaborate to develop exhibits focusing on exploration in the past, present and future. Events will be planned from spring 2006 through fall 2007.
"Exploration is the essence of the human spirit," Langley's director, Lesa Roe, said in a statement. ...
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