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NASA just swapped a 10-year-old Artemis II engine with one nearly twice its age
NASA officials ordered the removal of one of the massive rocket's RS-25 main engines after discovering a hydraulic leak on the engine's main oxidizer valve actuator, which controls the flow of ...
Space Force developing orbital ‘aircraft carrier’ that could launch new satellites
The U.S. Space Force is developing an orbital “aircraft carrier” that could rapidly deploy new spacecraft. The Seattle-based ...
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NASA's Nuclear-Powered 'Dragonfly' Rotorcraft Clears Critical Checkpoint
Dragonfly, NASA's nuclear-powered rotorcraft-in-progress, has cleared a pivotal checkpoint, the agency announced Thursday.
The Hubble Space Telescope turns 35 as NASA budget cuts loom. How many more birthdays will it have?
Budget cuts hitting U.S. government agencies like NASA don't seem promising for the Hubble Space Telescope, but there is ...
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Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions
Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...
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Katy Perry, 40, shares rare peek at Blue Origin shuttle hours before historic space mission: 'Dream becomes reality!'
Recording herself nearby and inside the shuttle on Monday morning UK time, Perry shared a video of the interior of the Blue Origin training shuttle as she expressed her excitement for the mission. In ...
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OTD In Space - April 14: 1st Space Shuttle Mission Lands
On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...
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Lots of rain today. This is Washingtonian Today.
Good morning. April showers will give us a good soak today, with wind gusts and a high around 53. Lovely weather for ducks, if you’re a not terribly critical duck. More rain overnight, with more gusts ...
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Why doomed space shuttle exploded 73 seconds into flight as Challenger crew’s chilling final words revealed
It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...
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Why doomed space shuttle exploded 73 seconds into flight as Challenger crew’s chilling final words revealed
It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...
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That's no space station, it's a student-led drone show: Space photo of the day
The International Space Station and a space shuttle, as seen here, joined other historic spacecraft and scenes from space history as part of a student-led drone show for the opening of the Space ...
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Jared Isaacman Championed By Space Stars And Statesmen To Head NASA
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Holden Platt writes on space defense, SpaceX, ISS, Space War I ...