Source: MSNBC
When NASA's space shuttle fleet retires in 2011, the space agency will have to rely on Russian spacecraft and the private sector to taxi cargo and humans to and from the International Space Station, even as it turns its focus to the ...
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Source: Bakersfield.com
But some industry watchers are concerned that the hype sometimes flies higher than the spaceships themselves. That's not to say the private space race isn't hugely significant. It is. Even critics agree there's a revolution unde ...
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Source: Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Â The private company SpaceX made history Friday with the docking of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the most impressive feat yet in turning routine spaceflight over to the commercial s ...
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Source: Wall Street Journal
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Source: Wall Street Journal
The aerospace industry reached a milestone Friday, when Space Exploration Technologies Corp. became the first private company to dock a spacecraft with the International Space Station, some 240 miles abo ...
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Source: Planetary Society Blog
Ask a four-year-old "Where is space?" and they will likely reply "Up there!" Look in the Outer Space Treaty or virtually any other US law relating to space for a definition of "where is space?" and you're not going to do much better than the four-year- ...
Full article at: Planetary Society Blog
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Source: ABC News
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket safely launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station before dawn today, carrying a Dragon capsule with 1,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station -- and, much more important, the hopes for a new way o ...
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