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NASA Selects Blue Origin and Partners to Develop Artemis Lander

Using existing and in development technologies provides the head start needed to meet NASA’s goal of landing at the South Pole of the Moon. Lockheed Martin’s Ascent Element is based on Orion; Northrop Grumman’s Transfer Element is based on Cygnus; and Blue Origin’s Descent Element is based on the Blue Moon lander and BE-7 engine, […]

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NASA Sounding Rockets Carry TRICE-2 over Norwegian Sea

Two NASA sounding rockets successfully flew over the Norwegian Sea early in the morning December 8 carrying an experiment to study the electrodynamics of the polar cusp. The Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics or TRICE-2 were launched at 3:26 and 3:28 a.m. EST from the Andoya Space Center in Andenes, Norway. The first rocket […]

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NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday. The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu to operating around the asteroid. Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) from Bennu’s Sun-facing surface, OSIRIS-REx will begin a preliminary […]

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Australian Space Agency warned: fund it or risk failure

The outgoing chairman of the Space Industry Association of Australia warns that without proper funding the nation’s Space Agency could falter. Jim Plouffe Leading space expert Michael Davis, who is stepping down from his chairmanship of the Space Industry Association of Australia in 2019 after decades of work, told more than 450 delegates at the […]

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NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Critical Design Review Milestone

You know the feeling of pride and achievement when you’ve worked really hard on a term paper, and finally turn it in? That’s how the critical design review team for NASA’s Space Launch System is feeling this week as the program completed its review. The in-depth review – the first in almost 40 years for […]

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Kennedy Space Center Opens New Small Vehicle Launch Complex

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida took another step forward in its transformation to a 21st Century multi-user spaceport with the completion of the new Small Class Vehicle Launch Pad, designated 39C, in the Launch Pad 39B area. This designated pad to test smaller rockets will make it more affordable for smaller aerospace companies to […]

The SpaceX facilities at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credits: SpaceX
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SpaceX Delays Crucial Test, Moves Crew Dragon Abort Test To KSC

Following the successful pad abort test in May, SpaceX began developing a plan that would move its in-flight abort test to provide higher fidelity data and reduce risk to future crews launched to the International Space Station in the Crew Dragon spacecraft. NASA and SpaceX agreed to consider this proposed change prior to the mishap […]

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Five Things To Know About Dragon’s Pad Abort Test

Crew Dragon’s first critical flight test, known as a Pad Abort Test, is expected to take place this Wednesday, May 6, from SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. While the test is originating from the same launch pad we use for operational missions, this is not an operational flight. This will […]

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NASA Provides Space Access for University Developed Experiments during March 27 Flight

NASA will fly six university experiments developed by undergraduate students from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia between 6:45 and 10 a.m., Friday, March 27.  The experiments will examine technology development, microgravity science and the search for life in the upper atmosphere and near space during the suborbital mission, which will reach an altitude of […]

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Lockheed Martin Pitches Novel Concept For CRS-2 ISS Resupply

On May 10, 1869, Leland Stanford raised a hammer and drove a golden spike into railroad tracks in Promontory, Utah. It marked the symbolic completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. For the first time in American history, the East and West were connected. The Transcontinental Railroad would transform the United States by establishing a national economy […]