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It’s the final countdown to the launch of NASA’s Year in Space
Read more →: It’s the final countdown to the launch of NASA’s Year in SpacePhoto via NASA/Bill Ingalls/Astronaut Scott Kelly It’s about to happen: NASA’s “Year in Space” is set to take…
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One-year space expedition starts with 18-hour workday
Read more →: One-year space expedition starts with 18-hour workdayNASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko will blast off Friday. Credit: NASA/Bill…
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Delta 4 rocket evolving to upgraded main engine
Read more →: Delta 4 rocket evolving to upgraded main engineCredit: Carleton Bailie/Boeing CAPE CANAVERAL — When the next Delta 4 rocket flies in July, as well as…
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Live coverage: Crew blasts off on record-setting space mission
Read more →: Live coverage: Crew blasts off on record-setting space missionMission Status Center Live coverage of the Expedition 43 crew on the International Space Station. Text updates will…
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Vega wins contract to launch Peruvian military satellite
Read more →: Vega wins contract to launch Peruvian military satelliteArianespace chairman and CEO Stephane Israel (left) and Airbus Defense and Space head of space programs Eric Beranger…
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China Completes Second Test on New Carrier Rocket’s Power System
Read more →: China Completes Second Test on New Carrier Rocket’s Power SystemBEIJING, March 27 (China Space News) — The second ground test of the power system of China’s next-generation…
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South Korean satellite launched by Dnepr rocket
Read more →: South Korean satellite launched by Dnepr rocketA stockpiled Soviet-era ballistic missile shot out of an underground silo on a remote Russian military base Wednesday…
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Kelly, Kornienko braced for marathon mission
Read more →: Kelly, Kornienko braced for marathon missionSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Veteran astronaut Scott Kelly, Soyuz commander Gennady Padalka and…
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Photos: More shots of Delta 4 liftoff
Read more →: Photos: More shots of Delta 4 liftoffThe 721,000-pound United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launches on-time at 2:36 p.m. EDT into a deck of…
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Two more options added to ULA’s rocket naming poll
Read more →: Two more options added to ULA’s rocket naming pollFans of classical mythology and the fictional Star Trek universe can vote for two new candidates as the…
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H-2A rocket achieves fourth launch in six months
Read more →: H-2A rocket achieves fourth launch in six monthsA new surveillance satellite equipped with a high-resolution optical camera blasted into space aboard a Japanese H-2A rocket…
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NASA opts to grab a boulder, not the whole asteroid
Read more →: NASA opts to grab a boulder, not the whole asteroidSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the robotic spacecraft designed to retrieve…