Watch the Incredible 'Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly' of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket

Posted by Jason Davis on 2015/01/16 10:01 CST | 13 comments

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has released four images of the company's Falcon 9 rocket impacting its drone ship landing pad in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Reconstructing What Happened at Sea, as Dragon Arrives at Station

Posted by Jason Davis on 2015/01/12 12:13 CST | 1 comment

Following a routine two-day voyage, SpaceX's Dragon capsule pulled in to port at the International Space Station. Meanwhile, tweets from CEO Elon Musk give clues on what happened at sea.

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Dragon Reaches Orbit, but Falcon Stage Crashes on Recovery Ship

Posted by Jason Davis on 2015/01/10 05:00 CST | 6 comments

SpaceX’s ambitious attempt to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous ocean platform was "close, but no cigar."

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NASA Completes First Test Firing of SLS Core Stage Engine (Updated)

Posted by Jason Davis on 2015/01/09 11:59 CST

NASA completed a 500-second test firing of the RS-25 engine, which will power the core stage of the Space Launch System.

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SpaceX Set to Retry Cargo Run, Rocket Stage Landing (Updated)

Posted by Jason Davis on 2015/01/05 05:14 CST | 3 comments

SpaceX will attempt to launch a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station and land a used Falcon 9 rocket stage on an uncrewed spaceport in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Get an Up-Close Look at the Lunar Surface with These 3D Apollo Images

Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/12/26 03:04 CST | 1 comment

3D images generated by the Apollo Lunar Surface Closeup Camera give you an idea of how it would look to crouch on the lunar surface with your spacesuit faceplate to the soil.

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Video: Ride along with Orion as It Plummets Back to Earth

Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/12/19 05:53 CST

A new NASA video provides an astronaut's-eye video of the final ten minutes of Orion's test flight.

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NASA Delays Asteroid Redirect Mission Concept Selection until 2015

Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/12/17 05:35 CST | 1 comment

NASA's efforts to capture a near-Earth asteroid and tow it back to lunar orbit will have to wait a little bit longer for a final mission concept.

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SpaceX to Attempt First-Ever Ocean Barge Rocket Landing

Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/12/17 12:20 CST | 1 comment

Early next year, SpaceX will attempt what no agency or company has done before: land a used rocket stage on a floating ocean platform.

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LightSail Completes Testing, Announcement Expected in January

Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/12/12 10:19 CST | 1 comment

The Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft successfully completed testing to prepare it for a possible 2015 test flight.

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