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Discovery Center in Colorado Springs to get major new attraction
The Space Foundation’s Discovery Center is preparing for a major new attraction — a full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope. The Space Foundation announced Northrop Grumman gifted the $1 million model to the Discovery Center during Space Symposium this week. “James Webb is a one-of-a-kind instrument that is going to revolutionize the way we look…
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Loss of U.S. Space Command a ‘missed opportunity’ for Colorado Springs; what next?
John Suthers has plenty of economic development wins as mayor — a massive Amazon distribution center and Southwest Airlines expanding to Colorado Springs to name two — but he called the loss of the U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Ala., his biggest setback. “We haven’t had a whole lot of economic development bad news, but…