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Antares Roars In Successful Debut Launch

Rising up from a blast of fire and steam, Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket roared off its Virignia launch pad this evening to begin successful inaugural mission. Liftoff occurred on Sunday, April 21 at 5:00 p.m. EDT from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the NASA’s’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It marked the […]

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NASA’s Voyager-1 Spacecraft Has NOT Left The Solar System, Yet

Reports from various news agencies today have been stating NASA’s Voyager-1 spacecraft as having left the solar system.  Although some in the astronomy community feel that Voyager 1 is in fact now traversing interstellar space, NASA and officials at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the same folks who built the spacecraft and continue […]

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Thunderbirds Final Performance To Draw Big Crowds To Florida’s Space Coast This Weekend

This weekend Titusville, Florida will play host to the 36th annual Tico Warbird Air Show, and this year’s events may prove to be the biggest in the Valiant Air Command’s history with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds headlining the weekend’s performances.  Not only that, but Tico will be the final Thunderbirds performance for the […]

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Scientists Create 3-D Image Of Buried Mars Channels With NASA’s MRO

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. The spacecraft took numerous images during the past few years that showed channels attributed to catastrophic flooding in the last 500 million years. Mars during this period had […]