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Shuttle memorial honors crews, orbiters
Read more →: Shuttle memorial honors crews, orbitersSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA In the first memorial of its kind,…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch
Read more →: Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launchLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on a resupply…
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Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test
Read more →: Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight testSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX Ground crews plan to load…
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Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in September
Read more →: Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in SeptemberKazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov will fly to the International Space Station in September. Credit: Kazcosmos Russia’s space agency…
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SpaceX aims for another rocket landing experiment Sunday
Read more →: SpaceX aims for another rocket landing experiment SundayArtist’s concept of a Falcon 9 booster after landing on SpaceX’s ocean-going platform. Credit: Jon Ross Keeping with…
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Astronaut Scott Kelly looks down on aurora lights
Read more →: Astronaut Scott Kelly looks down on aurora lightsA spectacular aurora is visible from the International Space Station in this scene captured by astronaut Scott Kelly.…
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Ariane 6 rockets likely to be assembled horizontally
Read more →: Ariane 6 rockets likely to be assembled horizontallyUpdated June 25. Artist’s concept of the Ariane 6 rocket in its “Ariane 64” configuration with four solid…
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Russian military satellite launched from Plesetsk
Read more →: Russian military satellite launched from PlesetskThe Soyuz rocket lifted off at 1644 GMT (12:44 p.m. EDT) from the Plesestsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.…
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New Horizons in good shape approaching Pluto
Read more →: New Horizons in good shape approaching PlutoSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION These images, taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI),…
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Stacking of 55th Atlas 5 rocket starts
Read more →: Stacking of 55th Atlas 5 rocket startsFile image of Atlas first stage stacking. Credit: NASA-KSC CAPE CANAVERAL — Beginning its fourth launch campaign of…
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New satellite joins Europe’s growing Earth observing network
Read more →: New satellite joins Europe’s growing Earth observing networkThe Vega rocket with Sentinel 2A blasted off at 0151:58 GMT Tuesday (9:51:58 p.m. EDT Monday) from Kourou,…
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Photos: Vega launch lights up French Guiana
Read more →: Photos: Vega launch lights up French GuianaMonday night’s blastoff of a Vega rocket from the northern shore of South America dispatched a 2,500-pound Earth…