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Bezos invites 82-year-old aviation pioneer to join him for spaceflight
Read more →: Bezos invites 82-year-old aviation pioneer to join him for spaceflightSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos meets with Wally Funk, who…
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Live coverage: Virgin’s small satellite launcher streaks into orbit
Read more →: Live coverage: Virgin’s small satellite launcher streaks into orbitLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket. The air-launched rocket will climb…
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SpaceX rocket hauls 88 small satellites into polar orbit
Read more →: SpaceX rocket hauls 88 small satellites into polar orbitA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin…
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SpaceX launches 88 spacecraft into orbit — including two of Spaceflight’s orbital tugs
Read more →: SpaceX launches 88 spacecraft into orbit — including two of Spaceflight’s orbital tugsA SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes its landing after the Transporter-2 launch. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX’s Falcon 9…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches smallsat rideshare mission into polar orbit
Read more →: Live coverage: SpaceX launches smallsat rideshare mission into polar orbitLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape…
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Russia successfully launches space station resupply ship
Read more →: Russia successfully launches space station resupply shipFour first stage boosters separate from the Soyuz-2.1a rocket about two minutes after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.…
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SpaceX scrubs launch after helicopter ventures into restricted airspace
Read more →: SpaceX scrubs launch after helicopter ventures into restricted airspaceCredit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography A private helicopter flew into restricted airspace near Cape…
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Virgin Orbit planning to launch seven small satellites Wednesday
Read more →: Virgin Orbit planning to launch seven small satellites WednesdayVirgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket under the wing of the company’s Boeing 747 carrier jet at Mojave Air and…
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Cygnus supply ship departs space station after four-month mission
Read more →: Cygnus supply ship departs space station after four-month missionNorthrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship is released from the International Space Station’s robotic arm at 12:32 p.m. EDT…
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SpaceX launch this week will feature first onshore rocket landing since December
Read more →: SpaceX launch this week will feature first onshore rocket landing since DecemberA Falcon 9 rocket descends to a touchdown at Landing Zone 1 after a launch in August 2020.…
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Space Development Agency’s first satellites to launch on SpaceX mission
Read more →: Space Development Agency’s first satellites to launch on SpaceX missionThe Defense Department’s Space Development Agency envisions deploying a constellation of hundreds of small satellites called the “Transport…
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Declining power supply could end NASA’s InSight Mars mission next year
Read more →: Declining power supply could end NASA’s InSight Mars mission next yearOne of InSight’s solar arrays, on the left, is covered in dust in this picture taken in May.…