Astronauts enter the Dragon for first time

Source: MSNBC

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship. NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, the first one inside the docked c ...
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SpaceX success boosts NASA private firm ties

Source: MyDesert.com | The Desert Sun

WASHINGTON — Almost from the time he took over NASA in 2009, Charles F. Bolden Jr. has urged a skeptical Congress to replace the space shuttle with a rocket developed by a private company with the space agency's help ...
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Commercial space race gets crowded behind SpaceX

Source: Detroit News Online

Washington — A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race. The capsule called Dragon was due to dock on Fri ...
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Bolden touts Dragon flight as progress

Source: Florida Today

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Is Your CEO a Space Cadet?

Source: AOL News

Tuesday marked a great achievement for Tesla Motors (NAS: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. One of his other companies (he has three), SpaceX, successfully launched a rocket into Earth's orbit, bringing cargo to the International Space Station ...
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SpaceX: why the docking of the Dragon capsule changes space exploration

Source: Guardian Unlimited

From one giant leap to Houston we have a problem, the human adventure in space has been told through a narrative of quotes that are seered on the mind. The latest chapter was no different. Perhaps not a ...
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NASA flooded with 400 ideas to explore Mars

Source: MSNBC

Scientists have responded in a big way to NASA's call to help reformulate its Mars robotic exploration strategy, submitting about 400 ideas and Red Planet mission concepts to the space agency. NASA's Mars program suf ...
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W.H. hails private space race

Source: The Politico

Space may be the final frontier for free enterprise, but it’s being conquered — with White House encouragement. The docking of the SpaceX Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on Friday marked the first such space feat for a commercia ...
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Toroloco fancied for feature

Source: Deccan Herald

Toroloco, trained by I Ghatala and to be ridden by B Prakash, is fancied to clinch the 1600-metre KN Guruswamy Memorial Cup, the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday. False rails, average width ...
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