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03 Orbit

This Falcon 9 rocket and its Dragon capsule will ride to the launch pad at Complex-40 on its transporter for its historic trip to the ISS. - Image credit: NASA/Cory Huston

NASA Approves New Launch Date of May 7th for SpaceX Dragon

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX issued a statement today that NASA and the Cape Canaveral
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April 24th, 2012
In this artist’s conception, a magnetized beam of ionized plasma is applied to a spacecraft headed on an interplanetary journey. The same technology could be used to remove dead satellites and other debris from Earth orbit. - Image credit: U. of Washington

New Space-Propulsion Tech Could Help Clean Up Earth Orbit

by By vince stricherz SEATTLE, Wash. — Some of the most valuable “real estate” for
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April 13th, 2012

NanoRacks Announces Expanded ISS Research Capabilities

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum
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April 13th, 2012
Workers dismantle a launchpad at Kennedy Space Center. - Image credit: NASA

NASA Produces A “State Of NASA’s Human Spaceflight” Report

NASA’s Human Spaceflight Programs | From Space Shuttle To The Future WASHINGTON, D.C. — The
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April 13th, 2012
Artist's rendering of the G-Lab. - Image credit: SSI

Space Studies Institute Announces “The Great Enterprise Initiative”

PHOENIX, Ariz. — The Space Studies Institute has announced a new Great Enterprise Initiative and
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April 13th, 2012
A Falcon 9 rocket on the pad at Cape Canaveral. - Image Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Honing In On Texas Launch Site

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Space Exploration Technologies wants to build an all-commercial launch facility in Texas,
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April 11th, 2012
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV, which is being human rated for future flights, takes off at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

ULA Announces New Human Launch Services Organization

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced the formation of a new organization
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April 10th, 2012
Boeing's drop test of the CST-100 nears its successful conclusion. - Image credit: Boeing

Boeing Successfully Completes CST-100 Spacecraft Drop Test

HOUSTON, Texas — Boeing successfully completed a parachute drop test of the company’s Crew Space
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April 3rd, 2012
Ariel view of Falcon 9 with Dragon qualification spacecraft on the launch pad at SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, Florida. - Image credit: SpaceX/Roger Gilbertson

NASA, SpaceX Announce NASA Social For Falcon 9 Launch Attempt

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will invite 50 of their social
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April 2nd, 2012
NASA astronaut Megan McArthur takes part in a crew equipment interface test inside the Dragon capsule. - Image credit: Paul Bonness/SpaceX

Crew Equipment UI Checked Out On Next Dragon Spacecraft

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — In preparation for the upcoming SpaceX demonstration flight, NASA astronaut
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Commentary

Getting to Where We’re Going Means Something New

by michael doornbos

I’ve spent the last few days reading the Omni Magazines from 1978 and 1979. All of them in fact. I’m struck by something: we’re still talking about most of these same ideas as things for the future…
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Orbit

Miles O’Brien Reports: SpaceX Readies for Launch – Showdown Over Dragon Capsule Seat

On a PBS NewsHour broadcast, Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on the upcoming SpaceX flight.
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New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are closely aligned with the plane of our Solar System. - Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Planetary

NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

PASADENA, Calif. — Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the
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The Freedom Star, a former space shuttle solid rocket booster recovery ship, will track the first commercial spacecraft carrying cargo to the International Space Station. - Image Credit: NASA

News

NASA Langley’s SCIFLI Team To Take Images Of SpaceX COTS2 Launch

HAMPTON, Va. — A team from NASA’s Langley Research Center will have its eyes, cameras
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Artist Impression of Ball Aerospace's Solar Electric Propulsion demonstrator. - Image Credit: Ball Aerospace

News

Ball Aerospace Submits Solar Electric Propulsion Concept to NASA

BOULDER, Colo. — Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has submitted its mission concept study to
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Video

Moonandback Interview with Ben Brockert, part 2 – Future Plans

At the recent Space Access Conference in Phoenix, Ben Brockert continues his interview talking about
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R2's use the exact same gloves as astronauts. - Image credit: NASA

News

Robonaut 2, the Legless Patent Dynamo

by andrew rush                 Even though it doesn’t have any legs (yet), Robonaut 2 is
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Jennifer Brisco, winner of XCOR's suborbital flight giveaway poses in the full size Lynx cockpit model. - Image credit: XCOR/Mike Massee

Sub orbit

XCOR Aerospace Announces Lynx Suborbital Flight Winner

MOJAVE, Calif. — XCOR Aerospace today announced the grand prize winner of a trip aboard
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Elton John singing "Rocket Man" and a real rocket man André Kuipers. - Image Credit: ESA

News

Elton John, ‘The Rocket Man’, Greets the ‘Rocket Men’ (Video)

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Continuing the celebration of André Kuipers’ music in space, British rock
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A cross-section of the Earth's ozone layer as measured by the Suomi NPP satellite. - Image Credit: NASA/NOAA

Environment

Our Weather Forecasting About To Get A Whole Lot Better

GREENBELT, Md. — NASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP),
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Video

Moonandback Interview with Ben Brockert, part 1 – The STIG Rocket

Ben Brockert, an Engineer for Armadillo Aerospace, talks with MM about the developement and experience
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The Soyuz rocket is seen in the monitor of a video camera moments before the crew arrives. - Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Orbit

Expedition 31 Trio Blasts Off for International Space Station

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, Russian Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight
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Video

Moonandback Interview with David Masten, part 2 – Opportunities & Updates

Dave Masten talks with MM about his belief that NASA should take ownership of the
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Commentary

The Real Story Behind the “Manned” Space Program

by edward wright                        All organizations that have enduring for any length of time have
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