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Video: Take a virtual ride on the Atlas 5 launch pad emergency ziplines
Read more →: Video: Take a virtual ride on the Atlas 5 launch pad emergency ziplinesCommercial ziplines have been installed and tested at United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket pad as the emergency…
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Ziplines installed to whisk personnel from danger at Starliner launch pad
Read more →: Ziplines installed to whisk personnel from danger at Starliner launch padCommercial ZipRiders will be used as the emergency escape system at the Atlas 5 launch complex. Credit: NASA…
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NASA officials expect fewer Earth science missions in coming years
Read more →: NASA officials expect fewer Earth science missions in coming yearsThis plankton bloom in the Barents Sea is a colorful example of the microscopic ocean life that the…
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United Launch Alliance wins three U.S. government satellite launches
Read more →: United Launch Alliance wins three U.S. government satellite launchesDelta 4-Heavy, Atlas 5-551 and Atlas 5-401 have each booked new U.S. government missions. Photos by United Launch…
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Photos: SpaceX’s photos from Thursday’s reflight of Falcon 9 booster
Read more →: Photos: SpaceX’s photos from Thursday’s reflight of Falcon 9 boosterRemote sound-triggered cameras around launch pad 39A captured stunning views of Thursday evening’s launch of a SpaceX Falcon…
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Pioneering Earth observation satellite retired by NASA
Read more →: Pioneering Earth observation satellite retired by NASAArtist’s concept of the EO-1 satellite in orbit. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SVS NASA has decommissioned a long-lived satellite launched in…
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SpaceX flies rocket for second time in historic test of cost-cutting technology
Read more →: SpaceX flies rocket for second time in historic test of cost-cutting technologyCredit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting a fresh cleaning and several…
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Falcon 9 launch to landing replay
Read more →: Falcon 9 launch to landing replayVideo from the SpaceX webcast, featuring the launch of the SES 10 satellite atop a previously-flown Falcon 9…
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Photos: Press site views of SpaceX’s rocket relaunch
Read more →: Photos: Press site views of SpaceX’s rocket relaunchThese photos of Thursday evening’s successful relaunch of a Falcon 9 rocket booster, which returned to Earth after…
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Watch replay of Falcon 9 launch as seen from the press site
Read more →: Watch replay of Falcon 9 launch as seen from the press siteA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, powered by a previously-flown booster, lifts off from launch pad 39A at NASA’s…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with SES 10
Read more →: Falcon 9 launch timeline with SES 10SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Thursday evening, heading due east over…
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Kimbrough, Whitson gear up for spacewalk
Read more →: Kimbrough, Whitson gear up for spacewalkFor the second time in less than a week, astronauts will leave their quarters inside the International Space…