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Re-engined’ Antares Rocket Completes Crucial Engine Test Firing
Orbital ATK announced late Tuesday that the company’s Antares medium-class commercial rocket outfitted with new first stage RD-181 engines has…
Work Efficiency Declines 75% On ISS As Facebook Arrives On Station
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will conduct a live chat with ISS astronauts today, and it will be streamed at NASA's…
Webb Telescope Gets its Science Instruments Installed
The package of powerful science instruments at the heart of NASA’s mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been successfully…
Reborn Antares Raised at Virginia Launch Pad for Crucial May 31 Engine Test
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – The soon to be reborn Orbital ATK Antares commercial rocket sporting new first stage engines has…
The House Makes NASA A Counteroffer It Probably Can’t Refuse
NASA's proposed new budget is mostly good news, though some planned missions will not be funded.
The Bigelow Expandable Module Is About To Blow Up
The BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module) is attached to the International Space Station, and will be carefully inflated on Thursday,…
America’s First Asteroid Sampling Mission OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Florida Launch Base
America’s first ever mission designed to retrieve samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth -…
Weekly Space Hangout – May 20, 2016: Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: Mike Brown is the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at CalTech.…
Orbital ATK Proposes Man-Tended Lunar-Orbit Outpost by 2020 for Link Up with NASA’s Orion
Orbital ATK has unveiled a practical new proposal to build a near term man-tended outpost in lunar orbit that could…
New Horizons Sends Back First Science On Distant Kuiper Belt Object
With Pluto in its rear-view mirror, New Horizons is heading towards its next target, and sending back valuable science on…