Tag: commercial-space
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SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk shows off Dragon spaceship and the suit for the ride
We’ve already gotten our first peek at the spacesuit that astronauts will wear when they’re riding in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk set hearts racing once again today when he sent out a picture showing the spacesuit being modeled next to the Dragon 2: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYyvO2WA3Ra/ The picture emphasizes the classic black-and-white…
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Video: Press site view of Falcon 9’s liftoff with X-37B spaceplane
Video credit: Spaceflight Now Watch a replay of Thursday morning’s Falcon 9 launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this view recorded from the press site around 3 miles from pad 39A. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off from pad 39A at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) with the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 blasts off with X-37B mini-shuttle
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B mini-shuttle. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Watch on a mobile device.
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Video: Falcon 9 fires away from pad 39A
Video credit: Spaceflight Now This zoomed-in shot shows SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket firing off launch pad 39A Thursday with the U.S. military’s X-37B spaceplane. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off from pad 39A at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) with the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane, a robotic miniature space shuttle that can operate without…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes its pitch to Congress for delivering cargo to the moon
An artist’s concept shows the Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, joined other companies today in laying out plans for commercial missions to the moon during a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill. “It’s time for America to return to the…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes its pitch to Congress for delivering cargo to the moon
An artist’s concept shows the Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, joined other companies today in laying out plans for commercial missions to the moon during a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill. “It’s time for America to return to the…
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SpaceX beats hurricane with smooth launch of military’s X-37B spaceplane
Credit: SpaceX Succeeding on a one-shot launch attempt before Hurricane Irma shuts down the Cape Canaveral spaceport, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into orbit Thursday with the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane, a reusable robotic mini-shuttle that could stay aloft for years with clandestine on-board experiments. Burning a super-chilled mixture of kerosene and liquid…
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4K video: Wide-angle view of Falcon 9 launch
Video credit: Spaceflight Now Watch a 4K video replay of Thursday’s Falcon 9 launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This view was recorded at the KSC press site around 3 miles from the launch pad. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off from pad 39A at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) with the U.S.…
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Photos: Military mini-shuttle transferred to SpaceX launch pad
Cocooned inside the nose cone of its Falcon 9 rocket booster, the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane journeyed from a former space shuttle hangar at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, past the Vehicle Assembly Building and toward launch pad 39A last week ahead of liftoff Thursday. The miniature space shuttle, designed for robotic operations without a…
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SpaceX readies rocket to launch military spaceplane into orbit
Artist’s concept of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane. Credit: Boeing With an eye on dangerous Hurricane Irma’s forecast path toward Florida, SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force are proceeding with preparations to launch an unpiloted reusable military spaceship Thursday on a mission to conduct experiments in orbit, deploy multiple small satellites and glide back…