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Photos: Soyuz crew capsule parachutes to landing in Kazakhstan
Read more →: Photos: Soyuz crew capsule parachutes to landing in KazakhstanA Soyuz spacecraft carrying a three-man crew parachuted to the flat grasslands of Kazakhstan on Saturday, returning home…
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SSL Confirms Post-Launch Operations for BRIsat and EchoStar 18
Read more →: SSL Confirms Post-Launch Operations for BRIsat and EchoStar 18[Via Satellite 06-20-2016] Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced two of its designed and built satellites launched Saturday aboard…
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China starts half-year human survival experiment for space exploration
Read more →: China starts half-year human survival experiment for space explorationFour Chinese volunteers on June 17 started a 180-day living experiment in a sealed space capsule, which will…
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Ariane 5 rocket hoists record commercial payload into orbit
Read more →: Ariane 5 rocket hoists record commercial payload into orbitAn Ariane 5 rocket took off at 2138 GMT (5:38 p.m. EDT; 6:38 p.m. French Guiana time) Saturday…
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Blue Origin conducts fourth consecutive test flight of New Shepard
Read more →: Blue Origin conducts fourth consecutive test flight of New ShepardBlue Origin has conducted the fourth test of its New Shepard reusable rocket and Crew Capsule on Sunday…
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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch lifts veil on world’s biggest plane — a giant bet on a new way to space
Read more →: Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch lifts veil on world’s biggest plane — a giant bet on a new way to spaceThis view of Stratolaunch Systems’ hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in California shows the massive airplane’s…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin live-streams its spaceship’s risky test flight
Read more →: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin live-streams its spaceship’s risky test flightBlue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship rises from its launch pad. (Credit: Blue Origin) Something went wrong during today’s test flight…
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Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth time
Read more →: Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth timeUpdated at 11:15 a.m. EDT (1515 GMT) Sunday after successful flight. Blue Origin’s suborbital space transport system made…
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Ariane 5 launches Echostar 18 and BRIsat
Read more →: Ariane 5 launches Echostar 18 and BRIsatAriane 5 has returned to launch action for the third time this year with the lofting of the…
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What a view! Space station trio sails home through picture-perfect clouds
Read more →: What a view! Space station trio sails home through picture-perfect cloudsA Russian Soyuz craft descends through the clouds toward its landing in Kazakhstan, bringing a U.S.-Russian-British crew back…
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Soyuz spacecraft brings home three-man station crew
Read more →: Soyuz spacecraft brings home three-man station crewSTORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and a…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 lifts off with two U.S.-built satellites
Read more →: Live coverage: Ariane 5 lifts off with two U.S.-built satellitesLive coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the EchoStar 18 and BRIsat…