It finally happened. After being scrapped at the last second the other day, the private sector finally entered the space race early this morning. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the unmanned Dragon capsule into space to meet up with the International Space Station during a 3:44 a.m. EDT launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking [...]

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The Air Force has decided to extend the mission of the Boeing X-37B, an experimental robotic space plane that’s been orbiting Earth for the past nine months. The pilotless X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, which made its first test flight in 2010, was launched from Cape Canaveral back in March.  At the time, Air Force officials [...]

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Just what exactly is the military’s secretive x-37B Orbital Test Vehicle?  We don’t really know much about it because it’s, well, a secret. We do know this, however – it’s a low-orbit space vehicle that can also be landed on a runway using nothing more than a  joystick. The unmanned Boeing craft returned to Earth [...]

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is ready to usher in a new age of space flight as it sits, ready to be launched, at Cape Canaveral today. The launch window lasts from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. SpaceX is prepared to launch its 180-foot-high rocket into outer space.  If the mission goes as planned, [...]

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After being scrubbed yesterday due to unfavorable weather conditions, the Ares 1-X launched at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Wednesday morning from Cape Canaveral. The Ares 1-X is the biggest U.S. rocket to venture into space since the Saturn V. The giant rocket executed a 90-degree roll as part of its test flight to verify the [...]

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The space shuttle Discovery touched down safely at Kennedy Space Center at 3:14pm EDT on Saturday, after a 13-day voyage. NASA had scrubbed an earlier planned landing, citing high winds. “It was a beautiful landing,” NASA launch manager Leroy Kaine said.  “About the only thing that beats a beautiful orbiter landing like this is the [...]

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