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SpaceX’s Falcon-9 flew into clear blue skies over Cape Canaveral AFS this afternoon, taking aim with Dragon for the CRS-8 mission to the ISS. The flight marked the first successful offshore barge landing for the company as well, marking the second time SpaceX has achieved a landing after launching from the Cape. Photo […] 
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be berthed to the Tranquility Node of the International Space Station for a two-year demonstration. It will be the first private space habitat of its kind. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace For the third time this year—following hard on the heels of January’s Jason-3 launch out of Vandenberg Air […] 
The Soyuz-MS crew will form the second half of Expedition 48, before rotating into the core of Expedition 49, under Anatoli Ivanishin’s command. Photo Credit: Michael Galindo/AmericaSpace Destined to fly a slightly shorter increment than normal to the International Space Station (ISS), the Expedition 48/49 crew of Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, NASA astronaut […] 
The OA-4 Cygnus spacecraft is pictured high above Bolivia, just prior to release by Canadarm2. Photo Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly/Twitter Friday morning’s unberthing and departure of Orbital ATK’s OA-4 Cygnus cargo ship from the International Space Station (ISS)—wrapping up the first U.S. visiting vehicle mission of 2016, as well as marking the longest stay-time […] 
Tim Peake undergoes suit fit-checks in the Quest airlock, ahead of U.S. EVA-35. Photo Credit: NASA He may be long-retired from the British Army, and his Christian name may have a different vowel at its core, but “Major Tim” Peake will pay unique tribute on Friday, 15 January, to “Starman” David Bowie, who […] 
Astronaut Tim Kopra, pictured during U.S. EVA-34 on 21 December, will serve as “EV1” during U.S. EVA-35 on 15 January. It will be his third career spacewalk and his first time in the lead-spacewalker role. Photo Credit: NASA At the stroke of midnight, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on 1 January, Expedition 46 Commander […] 
Engineers in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, recently tested the mechanisms that will connect future commercial crew spacecraft with the second International Docking Adapter. IDA-2, as it’s called, will be taken to the space station on a future cargo resupply mission. It will be one of two […] 
The performance enhancements which have enabled the Falcon 9 v1.2 (internally known as the Falcon 9 v1.1 Full Thrust) are expected to support larger payloads to orbit and will also permit the landing of the first-stage hardware on the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS). Photo Credit: SpaceX Three months after the catastrophic loss […] |
 Next Launch Starlink 3 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 27 Jan 20 at 14:49 GMT 27 Jan 20 at 9:49am Eastern 
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