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This morning, Boeing conducted the first major flight test of their new CST-100 Starliner crew capsule, flying off a launch stand at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for a pad abort test to demonstrate and prove it can safely escape an exploding rocket to save its crew. It was their first flight […] 
Virgin Galactic’s CEO, George Whitesides, in front of the second SpaceShipTwo as he congratulates the team in Mojave after completing another important milestone in the process of assembling and integrating the second SpaceShipTwo – Weight on Wheels. Photo Credit: Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, a reusable suborbital “spaceplane” for flying tourists and […] Time-lapse image of a Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) rocket launch, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in 2013. This was the fourth flight of CIBER. Image Credit: T. Arai/University of Tokyo The universe is vast and, apart from the stars and galaxies, a seemingly very dark and empty place, with utter […] The International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF) and the New Mexico Museum of Space History inducted the members of the original Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) team into the ISHF on Saturday, Aug. 17. Photo Credit: McDonnell Douglas The International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF) and the New Mexico Museum of Space History inducted […] This spectacular image of comet Tempel 1 was taken 67 seconds after it obliterated Deep Impact’s impactor spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD Like many of his colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space […] This June 1978 artist’s concept shows a space solar power system surrounded by an active asteroid retrieval mission. A NASA-sponsored study on space manufacturing held at Ames Research Center provided much of the technical basis for the painting.Image Credit: NASA/Denise Watt Within NASA’s new FY2014 budget proposal lies a project known as the […] Wernher von Braun helped pave the United States’ path to the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA Beginning in September 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, a team of about a hundred rocket scientists and engineers, led by Wernher von Braun, was spirited out of Germany and brought to the United States […] 
Felix Baumgartner moments before jumping from an altitude of just over 71,000 feet last March. The jump was a dress rehearsal for a planned record breaking jump from 120,000 feet October 8. Photo Credit: Jay Nemeth / Red Bull Content Pool The countdown is on for a record-breaking jump attempt from the edge […] |
 Next Launch Starlink-10 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 18 Aug 20 at 14:31 GMT 18 Aug 20 at 10:31am Eastern 
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