By Mike Killian, on July 27th, 2019
NASA astronauts Nick Hague (center) Christina Koch (left) and Drew Morgan (right), currently serving with the Expedition 60 crew on the International Space Station, welcome SpaceX Dragon CRS-18 to the orbiting outpost on 27 July 2019. Photo Credit: NASA
SpaceX successfully delivered their 18th resupply mission to the International Space Station today, bringing with […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 25th, 2019
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 25, 2019, at 6:01 p.m. for the company’s 18th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. Photo credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace.com
The International Space Station (ISS) is shaping up […]
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By Mike Killian, on March 3rd, 2019
The SpaceX Crew Dragon on ‘Demo-1’ docking to the station’s international docking adapter, which is attached to the forward end of the Harmony module. Credit: NASA TV
Early this morning, after making 18 orbits of the Earth and 27 hours after launch, the first SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived and docked to the International […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 13th, 2017
The Upgraded Falcon 9 vehicle for the first Iridium NEXT mission is prepared for launch. Photo Credit: SpaceX/Matt Desch/Twitter
Four months after an Upgraded Falcon 9 booster catastrophically exploded on Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.—destroying both the vehicle and its payload, the Amos-6 communications satellite—SpaceX is ready […]
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By Ben Evans, on September 15th, 2016
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite is readied for encapsulation in the Atlas V payload fairing on 8 September 2016. Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin
Twenty-five months after the WorldView-3 commercial Earth-imaging satellite was launched into orbit, its near-twin is set to rocket out of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., no sooner than Friday, 16 September, atop […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 21st, 2015
History was made on 21 December 2015, as SpaceX brought the first stage of its Upgraded Falcon 9 back from the edge of space and guided it to a precision landing on solid ground. Photo Credit: SpaceX
Having suffered the catastrophic loss of a Falcon 9 v1.1 booster during first-stage flight on 28 […]
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By Talia Landman, on October 8th, 2015
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 […]
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By Talia Landman, on July 29th, 2015
The National Transportation and Safety Board met on July 28, 2015, to discuss the probably cause surrounding the fatal SpaceShipTwo accident that occurred in late-October 2014. Photo Credit: NTSB
After a series of delays on the morning of Oct. 31, 2014, pilot Peter Siebold and co-pilot Michael Alsbury soared over the Mojave Desert […]
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By Talia Landman, on June 29th, 2015
“Forever Remembered” at KSCVC pays tribute to the 14 fallen astronaut heroes who sacrificed their lives during America’s 30-year space shuttle program. Photo Credit: Talia Landman / AmericaSpace
“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave.” – President Ronald Reagan
There was not a dry eye in the […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on June 13th, 2015
Artist’s conception of the MarCO CubeSats flying past Mars as the InSight lander descends to the surface. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The next NASA mission to Mars, the InSight lander, will include some additional experimental technology: the first deep-space CubeSats. Two small CubeSats will fly past the planet as the lander is descending through […]
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