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Soyuz Poised for High Stakes November 13 Blastoff – Space Stations Fate Hinges on Success
[/caption] The stakes could not be higher for the Russian Soyuz rocket now poised at the launch pad at Baikonur…
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Orion Spacecraft to Launch in 2014
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – NASA has announced its intention to launch an unmanned flight of the Orion Spacecraft atop…
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ASF 2011 Autograph Show: To Be the Shoulders of Tomorrow’s Titans
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Every year the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) hosts its “Astronaut Autograph Show” at Kennedy Space…
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Russians Race against Time to Save Ambitious Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe from Earthly Demise
[/caption] Teams of Russian engineers are in a race against time to save the ambitious and unprecedented Phobos-Grunt sample return…
NASA Test-Fires Key Engine for New Launch System
NASA successfully test-fired the J2-X rocket engine on Wednesday, a key component of the Space Launch System, NASA’s giant new…
Russia’s Bold Sample Return Mission to Mars and Phobos Blasts Off
Russia has successfully launched the Phobos-Grunt sample return mission to Mars aiming to return a soil sample from Phobos, the…
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Russian Mars Moon Sample Probe Poised to Soar atop Upgraded Rocket – Video
[/caption] After an absence of almost two decades, Russia is at last on the cusp of resuming an ambitious agenda…
Awesome Action Animation Depicts Russia’s Bold Robot Retriever to Mars moon Phobos
[/caption] In less than 48 hours, Russia’s bold Phobos-Grunt mechanized probe will embark on a historic flight to haul humanities…
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Curiosity Rover Bolted to Atlas Rocket – In Search of Martian Microbial Habitats
[/caption] Only time now stands in the way of Curiosity’s long awaited date with the Red Planet. NASA’s next, and…
Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 Encapsulated for Voyage to Mars and Phobos
[/caption] Phobo-Grunt, Russia’s first interplanetary mission in nearly two decades, has now been encapsulated inside the payload fairing and sealed…