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PHOTOS: Five Most Promising Private Spacecraft Designs

Posted 05.19.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 05/18/2012 02:59 PM EDT on SPACE.com The private spaceflight company SpaceX is set to launch its Dragon capsule toward ...

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LOOK: Shuttle's Crazy Cockpit On Display As Retired Spacecrafts Head To New Homes

Posted 04.09.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 04/03/2012 11:35 AM EDT on SPACE.com A retired NASA space shuttle and an early prototype for the winged spacecraft will...

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WATCH: Robotic Spacecraft Nails Risky Space Station Maneuver

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Esa, Video, Nasa, Spacecraft, Atv-3, Iss, International Space Station, Edoardo Arnaldi, Docking, European Space Agency, Orbit, Robotic Cargo Ship, Science News

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/06/2012 04:59 PM EDT on SPACE.com Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured an extraordin...

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PHOTOS: Saturn's Moons Icily Bleak In Close-Ups From Cassini

Posted 03.30.2012

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By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 03/30/2012 06:45 AM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's workhorse Saturn orbiter Cassini has just beamed back stunning new v...

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THIS WEEK: Spaceship Visible In Night Sky, If You Know Where To Look

Posted 03.28.2012

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By: Tariq Malik Published: 03/26/2012 03:57 PM EDT on SPACE.com Skywatchers around the world have two more chances to spot a huge robotic cargo...

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WATCH: What The Sun Looks Like From Pluto

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Dwarf Planet, Video, Pluto Video, New Horizons Probe, Spacecraft, Nasa, New Horizons, Astronomy, Pluto Probe, Space, Pluto, Solar System, Planet, Probe, Science News

In the video above, a tiny sun floats through the haze over rocky ground. It's a bleak and alien view, but that's no scene from a science fiction film...

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Sun-Gazing Spacecraft Makes Surprising Solar Flare Find

Posted 02.11.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/10/2012 07:42 AM EST on SPACE.com One of NASA's workhorse space observatories, the RHESSI satellite, is celeb...

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WATCH: First-Ever Video Of Moon's Far Side

Posted 02.02.2012

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By: Tariq Malik Published: 02/01/2012 06:20 PM EST on SPACE.com A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video ...

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Russia Identifies Likely Cause Of Mars Probe Failure

AP | By JIM HEINTZ | Posted 04.01.2012

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MOSCOW -- The head of Russia's space agency said Tuesday that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that cras...

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Russia Asks If U.S. Radar Ruined Mars Probe

AP | SOFIA JAVED | Posted 03.18.2012

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MOSCOW — Russia will look into the possibility that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe tha...

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Seeing the Space Station Before Dawn

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Sputnik, Space Travel, Spacecraft, Nasa, International Space Station, Space Exploration, Astronomy, Space Station, Space, Soyuz, Science, Robots, Family, Science News

It may LOOK like just a dot from my backyard, but I know it's an orbital complex the size of a jumbo jet, built by 16 countries working together, and a house in space that's been inhabited continuously for more than half my life.

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The Latest On Doomed Russian Space Probe

AP | By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 03.13.2012

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MOSCOW -- A Russian spacecraft designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heavie...

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Mars-bound NASA Rover Aiming For An August Landing

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 03.12.2012

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LOS ANGELES — Firing on all engines, NASA's latest rover to Mars executed a course adjustment Wednesday that put it on track for a landing on th...

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NASA Considering Fuel Depots In The Skies

nytimes.com | KENNETH CHANG | Posted 12.22.2011

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By considering a proposal to put filling stations in the sky, NASA is looking to accelerate plans to send astronauts to distant destinations....

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Roswell UFO Controversy: Former Air Force Intelligence Officer Says General Lied To Cover Up Space Ship Crash

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.21.2011

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The Roswell UFO controversy may be 64 years old, but it shows no sign of heading into retirement. One thing we know for sure: On July 8, 1947, the...

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Former Astronaut Story Musgrave Blasts NASA Over Space Program Failures

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 09.08.2011

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Houston, we have a problem ... with NASA. As the space shuttle Atlantis orbits Earth in the final mission of NASA's 30-year reusable spacecraft leg...

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Mysterious Robot Spacecraft Returns After 7-Month Trip

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. military's secretive X-37B unmanned spaceplane slipped out of orbit and landed itself in early morning darkness Friday at...

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The Year of the Moon

Eric Lurio | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tomorrow is the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on our Moon. In another ten years, most of the people involved with it will be dead.

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PHOTOS: Lunar Orbiter Releases First Photos Of Moon

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which launched on June 18, just released its first images of the moon's pockmarked terrain. The Orbiter c...

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