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Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videos
Read more →: Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videosA view from the “vent cam” on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital booster shows a West Texas landscape…
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Companies offer fresh perspectives on recent rocket landings
Read more →: Companies offer fresh perspectives on recent rocket landingsIn case the the sight of a large rocket plummeting back to Earth, only to be slowed in…
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Kepler adds 1,284 exoplanets to its total
Read more →: Kepler adds 1,284 exoplanets to its totalSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by…
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1,284 new worlds! Kepler mission doubles its tally of planets in one fell swoop
Read more →: 1,284 new worlds! Kepler mission doubles its tally of planets in one fell swoopA graphic shows the diversity of planets. (Credit: NASA) The scientists behind NASA’s Kepler mission are using statistics to…
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Space Day Marked Across China
Read more →: Space Day Marked Across ChinaBEIJING, Apr. 30 (China Space News) —China marked its first national “Space Day” on Sunday, celebrating the country’s…
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Relive Seattle’s night of the northern lights with these spectacular pictures
Read more →: Relive Seattle’s night of the northern lights with these spectacular picturesPhotographer Tim Durkan’s picture of the Seattle skyline features the northern lights as well as the Space Needle.…
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Destructive Canadian wildfire sighted from space
Read more →: Destructive Canadian wildfire sighted from spaceThese wide view before and after images from DigitalGlobe’s commercial WorldView 2 Earth observation satellite show the area…
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Key return to flight milestone looms for Antares rocket
Read more →: Key return to flight milestone looms for Antares rocketOrbital ATK technicians install two RD-181 engines to the base of an Antares rocket’s first stage booster last…
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Transit of Mercury: How you can watch an astronomical rarity despite the clouds
Read more →: Transit of Mercury: How you can watch an astronomical rarity despite the cloudsA multiple-exposure photo shows Mercury as a speck making its way across the sun’s disk. (Credit: NASA) For…
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Xi Expects New Chapter in Aerospace Development
Read more →: Xi Expects New Chapter in Aerospace DevelopmentBEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping spurred on the country’s aerospace scientists and engineers to…
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Chinese Sounding Rocket Launches
Read more →: Chinese Sounding Rocket LaunchesHAIKOU, April 27 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists launched a sounding rocket from south China’s Hainan Province in the…
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Falcon 9 succeeds in middle-of-the-night launch and landing
Read more →: Falcon 9 succeeds in middle-of-the-night launch and landingSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks due east from Cape Canaveral after lifting off at 1:21 a.m. EDT (0521…