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Most Powerful Solid Rocket Booster Ignites in Milestone Test, Propelling NASA on Path to Deep Space
At the Orbital ATK test facility, the booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was fired for a two minute…
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World’s Most Powerful Solid Booster Set for Space Launch System Test Firing on March 11
All systems are go for the inaugural ground test firing on March 11 of the world’s most powerful solid rocket…
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NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Spacecraft Set for March Blastoff to study Earth’s Magnetic Reconnection Events
NASA’s first mission dedicated to study the process in nature known as magnetic reconnection undergoing final preparation for launch from…
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Orbital ATK Aims for March 2016 Antares Rocket Launch Restart with New Engines
The newly merged company Orbital ATK is aiming to restart launches of their “upgraded Antares” rocket in March 2016 using…
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25 Years Since Voyager’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Images
A quarter of a century has passed since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped the iconic image of Earth known as…
Why Can’t We Design the Perfect Spacesuit?
So far, every spacesuit humans have utilized has been designed with a specific mission and purpose in mind. As of…
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The Number of Asteroids We Could Visit and Explore Has Just Doubled
There’s a famous line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet that says “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are…
All the World’s Rockets, Past, Present and Future
MOAR rockets! As a followup to our recent post about the Rockets of the World (to scale), here's another graphic…
Flying Sky Car: The Skylon Explainer Inspired by xkcd
Just about everyone can claim to being inspired by the xkcd webcomic -- or at least enjoying a shared nerd…
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Gorgeous Sunrises, Auroras, Landscapes, and More from Space Station Crew
The Expedition 42 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) continues to delight us with stunning views of ‘Our Beautiful…