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Kepler’s data catalog exceeds 1,000 confirmed planets
Read more →: Kepler’s data catalog exceeds 1,000 confirmed planetsArtist’s concept of an exoplanet discovered by Kepler. Credit: NASA Astronomers culling imagery from NASA’s Kepler space telescope…
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Photos: Falcon 9 after Tuesday’s aborted countdown
Read more →: Photos: Falcon 9 after Tuesday’s aborted countdownThe Falcon 9 rocket’s launch attempt Tuesday was called off after SpaceX engineers detected a problem with the…
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Next Falcon 9 launch attempt pushed back to Saturday
Read more →: Next Falcon 9 launch attempt pushed back to SaturdayThe mission patch for SpaceX’s fifth operational resupply flight to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is…
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Navy satellite to be hoisted atop rocket for Jan. 20 launch
Read more →: Navy satellite to be hoisted atop rocket for Jan. 20 launchFile image of MUOS 1 being hoisted. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — The payload will be mounted aboard…
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Chinese Spacecraft to Return to Moon’s Orbit
Read more →: Chinese Spacecraft to Return to Moon’s OrbitBEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — The service module of China’s unmanned lunar orbiter is scheduled to return to…
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Photos: Falcon 9 vertical on the launch pad
Read more →: Photos: Falcon 9 vertical on the launch padSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was lifted upright on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Monday after workers loaded…
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NASA ‘leaning on’ SpaceX to keep ISS supply lines open
Read more →: NASA ‘leaning on’ SpaceX to keep ISS supply lines openA previous Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station in September 2014. Credit: SpaceX The Dragon spaceship poised…
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SpaceX launch scrubbed by steering system problem
Read more →: SpaceX launch scrubbed by steering system problemSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Launch of a SpaceX Falcon…
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GAO reaffirms NASA’s commercial crew decision
Read more →: GAO reaffirms NASA’s commercial crew decisionBoeing’s CST-100 spacecraft (left) and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule (right) will carry U.S. astronauts between Earth and the…
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Cargo flight first of many SpaceX launches planned for 2015
Read more →: Cargo flight first of many SpaceX launches planned for 2015SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is seen at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad before going vertical. Credit: SpaceX…
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Video: SpaceX launch and landing preview briefing
Read more →: Video: SpaceX launch and landing preview briefingNASA, SpaceX and United States Air Force officials hold the pre-launch news conference for the CRS-5 flight on…
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Ships deployed into the Atlantic for experimental rocket landing
Read more →: Ships deployed into the Atlantic for experimental rocket landingAn aerial view of SpaceX’s rocket landing barge, named the Marmac 300 and unofficially christened the “Autonomous Spaceport…