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  • Photos: SpaceX launches crew capsule demonstration flight

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    SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, designed to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, fired into orbit on top of a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) Saturday from pad 39A at the Florida spaceport.…

  • SpaceX crew capsule welcomed aboard space station

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    SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft closes in for docking Sunday at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Closing out a 27-hour pursuit after a predawn launch from Florida’s Space Coast, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule glided to an automated docking early Sunday at the International Space Station, accomplishing one of the ship’s key test…

  • SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship makes maiden flight with robo-rider named Ripley

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending its first Crew Dragon spaceship skyward with a spacesuit-wearing mannequin seated inside. (SpaceX Photo) SpaceX’s Crew Dragon was sent into space atop a Falcon 9 rocket tonight, beginning a crucial test of a spaceship that’s destined to carry NASA astronauts to…

  • SpaceX launches first Crew Dragon ferry ship

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fires away from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with the first space-bound Crew Dragon capsule. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now Opening a new era in American spaceflight, a Falcon 9 rocket streaked into space early Saturday, boosting the company’s first…

  • Astronauts eager to see results of Crew Dragon test flight

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully launched March 2, and docked with the International Space Station on March 3. NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, backdropped by astronauts Bob Behnken, Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover (left to right), speaks to reporters Friday ahead of the Crew Dragon spacecraft’s first orbital test flight. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky The astronauts…

  • Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon arrive at pad 39A for launch

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    SpaceX rolled the first Crew Dragon spacecraft out to a Florida launch pad Thursday for final preparations ahead of a test flight to the International Space Station. The commercial crew capsule will ride a 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) Saturday,…

  • Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon stand tall at pad 39A

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    These photos show the 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft at launch pad 39A, ready for liftoff Saturday from Florida’s Space Coast on a critical test flight to the International Space Station. Liftoff from pad 39A is scheduled for 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) to begin a 27-hour trek to the station,…

  • Live coverage: Crew Dragon capsule returns to Earth

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Crew Dragon spacecraft’s first test flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. NASA TV’s live video coverage of Crew Dragon’s deorbit burn and splashdown begins at…

  • Video: First OneWeb satellites deployed in orbit

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    A camera mounted on-board the upper stage of a Soyuz rocket launched Wednesday from South America captured dazzling views of the first six OneWeb broadband satellites separating from their carrier module more than 600 miles (about 1,000 kilometers) above Earth. The video released by Arianespace shows the six 325-pound (147.7-kilogram) spacecraft, each about the size…

  • Photos: Soyuz lifts off on first OneWeb mission

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    A Soyuz booster vaulted into a sunset sky over French Guiana on Wednesday evening, arcing north from the jungle spaceport in South America with six satellites to inaugurate OneWeb’s global broadband network. The Soyuz ST-B rocket, fueled by kerosene and liquid oxygen, lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at 6:37 p.m. local time Wednesday…