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Photos: Crew departs on half-year space station expedition
Read more →: Photos: Crew departs on half-year space station expeditionCheck out a pictorial retrospective on Friday’s launch of three new space station crew members from Kazakhstan, riding…
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Jason 3 satellite begins surveying world’s oceans
Read more →: Jason 3 satellite begins surveying world’s oceansArtist’s concept of the Jason 3 satellite mapping the ocean surface with its radar altimeter. Credit: NASA Two…
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Soyuz docks with space station with fresh crew
Read more →: Soyuz docks with space station with fresh crewSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Photo credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts…
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Preview: Cygnus to take flight Tuesday aboard Atlas 5 rocket
Read more →: Preview: Cygnus to take flight Tuesday aboard Atlas 5 rocketCredit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — A hundred days after the last U.S. commercial resupply of the International Space…
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Video: Soyuz crew blasts off en route to space station
Read more →: Video: Soyuz crew blasts off en route to space stationA Soyuz rocket climbed away from a historic launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday…
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In-orbit Delivery of Laos’ 1st Satellite Launched
Read more →: In-orbit Delivery of Laos’ 1st Satellite LaunchedBEIJING, Mar. 17 (China Space News) — The ceremony of in-orbit delivery of Lao’s first satellite cooperated with…
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Soyuz crew transport arrives at launch pad
Read more →: Soyuz crew transport arrives at launch padA Russian Soyuz rocket has reached its last stop before liftoff Friday with two Russian cosmonauts and veteran…
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International Space Station to study meteors hitting atmosphere
Read more →: International Space Station to study meteors hitting atmosphereAstronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 28 flight engineer, caught this image from the International Space Station in 2011 during…
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NASA to set ‘biggest man-made fire ever in space’ in effort to improve mission safety
Read more →: NASA to set ‘biggest man-made fire ever in space’ in effort to improve mission safetyWe’ve seen enough scary scenes in movies to know that fire aboard a spacecraft looks like a bad idea.…
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Atlas 5/Cygnus OA-6 launch timeline
Read more →: Atlas 5/Cygnus OA-6 launch timelineFollow the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad with the Orbital…
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Marvel at Monday’s Mars launch with these photos
Read more →: Marvel at Monday’s Mars launch with these photosTake a look back at the fiery blastoff of a Russian Proton rocket Monday with the ExoMars 2016…
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Scientists to start fire in discarded spacecraft to study flames in weightless
Read more →: Scientists to start fire in discarded spacecraft to study flames in weightlessThe SAFFIRE mission logo. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — Working via remote control this spring, scientists will spark…