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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 […] 
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and its service module sit atop the test stand at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico ahead of the company’s Pad Abort Test. The test is scheduled for Nov. 4, 2019, and will demonstrate the spacecraft’s ability to quickly escape the launch pad in the event of an emergency […] 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 […] Space shuttle astronaut Gordon Fullerton has passed away. Photo Credit: NASA Yesterday’s passing of Gordon Fullerton, aged 76, was not unexpected, for he had suffered a debilitating stroke three years ago and his health had been particularly fragile in recent weeks. However, the loss of a man who had literally made aviation his […] 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 […] Flanked by two NASA T-38 jets, flying chase, Columbia touches down in the mountain-ringed expanse of White Sands Missile Range on 30 March 1982. Photo Credit: NASA More than three decades ago—and two full years ahead of the first shuttle launch—NASA took the unusual step of picking a great white blotch of compacted […] NASA has the first flight of the Orion spacecraft scheduled to take place in the latter half of 2014. More and more elements needed to conduct this mission have been assembled and are being readied for the inaugural flight of NASA’s new spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — There has been […] 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 […] NASA has received the Launch Abort System which will be used on the first flight of the space agency’s Orion spacecraft, currently scheduled to take launch in September 2014. Photo Credit: ATK CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — Preparations to send the first Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle into orbit has passed yet another milestone on […] |
 Next Launch Starlink 2 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 11 Nov 19 at 14:56 GMT 11 Nov 19 at 9:56am Eastern 
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