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Orion’s Crew Module, seen here with its heat shield installed, being maneuvered for stacking on the spacecraft’s Service Module. Photo Credit: NASA After more than a decade of planning and preparation, excitement, and frustration, NASA is ready to launch the first human-capable vehicle for Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) exploration in more than four decades […] Artist’s conception of an asteroid collision around the Sun-like star NGC 2547-ID8. Such impacts around young stars lead to planetary formation later on. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Solar systems, including ours, are thought to begin as massive clouds of dust and gas surrounding young stars; over billions of years, planets form from repeated impacts of […] The new Z-2 Spacesuit being developed by NASA for missions to the Moon and Mars. Photo Credit: NASA If you’ve ever wondered what the latest fashion trends are for NASA astronauts, then here is your answer. For the first time in nearly 30 years, spacesuits for American astronauts are being given a complete makeover […] Artist’s conception of one of the newly-found planets in the Messier 67 star cluster. Image Credit: ESO Three more exoplanets have just been found, adding to a long and rapidly growing list, but their location makes them a bit more unique – they orbit three different stars in a star cluster rather than other […] This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars. The planet’s 66-day orbit is tilted 2.5 degrees with respect to the plane of the binary star’s orbit. The orbit of the planet wobbles around the central stars over 11 years, an effect called precession. […] SLS staging of solid rocket motors. Photo credit NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
In August, the Space Launch System Program (SLS) passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The next major milestone for the program is Key Decision Point C (KDP-C). If SLS passes this decision point, it will progress from the formulation phase […] SpaceX’s customer on the upcoming launch of the Cassiope mission, MacDonald Ditwiller & Associates Inc., has blocked all media from covering the launch. This is the latest in a series of issues relating to SpaceX’s media relations. Image Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has had its fair share of issues […] The first launch of a Falcon 9 rocket has been delayed five days. Photo Credit SpaceX The first launch of Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on the first mission not relating to a NASA initiative, will have to wait a bit longer. Liftoff of the […] |
 Next Launch Inmarsat-5 on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 15 May 17 at 23:21 GMT 15 May 17 at 7:21pm Eastern 
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 The Cassini mission has come to an end and and the spacecraft is to be de-orbited and crashed into Saturn. Click here for updates.     Slim Crescent of Ice  The low angle of sunlight along the slim crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Read More 
 
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