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New Milestone for Starlink Launches by SpaceX

SpaceX set a new milestone in Falcon 9 reuse with the latest Starlink satellite launch Nov. 24 as the company…

4 years ago

China Launches Change 5 Mission to Moon to Return Lunar Samples

China successfully launched its Chang'e-5 lunar mission Tuesday to collect rocks from the moon -- the first attempt by any…

4 years ago

ISS is an Orbiting Laboratory

Thousands of scientists have launched experiments to space. International Space Station is a great platform for running experiments in space…

4 years ago

Space Traffic Management Workshop

With more and more objects launched into space (and especially into a Low Earth Orbit), the concept of Space Debris…

4 years ago

NASA is Going Ahead to Enable a Booming Low-Earth Orbit Economy

One year ago, NASA announced the agency is opening the space station for business, enabling commercial and marketing opportunities on the…

4 years ago

Space Debris Threat is Growing and Effecting Future Spaceflights

The threat posed by space junk (space debris) is growing — and the window for mitigating it is closing. Experts…

4 years ago

How The Coronavirus Pandemic Can Help Us Prepare For An Asteroid Impact

The emergency preparedness activities now underway to combat the coronavirus pandemic offer insight about our readiness to deal with a…

4 years ago

NASA Gets Set To Put Astronauts On Blue Origin And Virgin Galactic Suborbital Flights

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled today that astronauts would soon be cleared to take suborbital spaceflights aboard the commercial rocket…

4 years ago

Departing Commander of ISS Provides a Tour of ISS Labs and Research Facilities

Departing Commander of ISS Provides a Tour of ISS Labs and Research Facilities. International Space Station has been operational since…

5 years ago

SpaceX Launches its First Manned Space Flight Making it Also the First Manned Launch from American Soil after the Space Shuttle Program

SpaceX launched astronauts for the first time ever today, making history and opening a new age of commercial spaceflight. A…

5 years ago