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President Obama leads celebration on Twitter for SpaceX’s rocket landing at sea
Read more →: President Obama leads celebration on Twitter for SpaceX’s rocket landing at seaSpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows President Barack Obama around the company’s Cape Canaveral rocket processing site in 2010.…
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Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank relic heads for California
Read more →: Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank relic heads for CaliforniaThe last remaining external fuel tank built for the space shuttle program but never flew will depart its…
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Photos: Dragon completes rendezvous with the station
Read more →: Photos: Dragon completes rendezvous with the stationThe SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with supplies, crew provisions, new science experiments and an experimental expandable module…
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Photos of the Falcon 9’s Friday afternoon flight
Read more →: Photos of the Falcon 9’s Friday afternoon flightSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Friday afternoon, sending a Dragon cargo freighter on…
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Video: Press conference following Falcon launch and landing
Read more →: Video: Press conference following Falcon launch and landingKirk Shireman, NASA’s manager of the International Space Station Program, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX…
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Kepler space telescope in emergency mode
Read more →: Kepler space telescope in emergency modeArtist’s concept of the Kepler observatory. Credit: NASA Mission controllers are trying to diagnose a problem that put…
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Video: SpaceX lands rocket on drone ship for first time
Read more →: Video: SpaceX lands rocket on drone ship for first timeSpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster steered toward a first-ever landing on a drone ship floating 185 miles northeast of…
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Photos: SpaceX cargo mission prepared for launch
Read more →: Photos: SpaceX cargo mission prepared for launchSpaceX’s eighth operational cargo mission to the International Space Station is set for liftoff with nearly 3.5 tons…
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Live coverage: Space station robot arm captures Dragon supply ship
Read more →: Live coverage: Space station robot arm captures Dragon supply shipLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s eighth…
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Moon Express asks FAA to review its plans for Google Lunar X Prize landing in 2017
Read more →: Moon Express asks FAA to review its plans for Google Lunar X Prize landing in 2017An artist’s conception shows the Moon Express MX-1 spacecraft orbiting the moon in preparation for landing. (Credit: Moon…
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SpaceX lands rocket on ocean-going drone ship
Read more →: SpaceX lands rocket on ocean-going drone shipA split-screen view during SpaceX’s launch webcast showed the Falcon 9 first stage booster after touchdown on the…
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SpaceX lands Falcon rocket at sea after launching a pop-up room to space station
Read more →: SpaceX lands Falcon rocket at sea after launching a pop-up room to space stationThe first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands erect on a drone ship after landing. (Credit: SpaceX)…