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Quietly, the new space race between SpaceX and Boeing burns hot
It’s been half a century since the United States finally dusted Russia in the space race, as NASA’s Gemini program ticked off an unprecedented series of long-duration flights, spacewalks, and in-space rendezvous to put America firmly on course to the Moon. Today, a new space race has begun. But this modern face-off has some key differences, not the least of which is that America's and Russia’s space programs presently depend upon one another.
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SpaceX May Try to Land a Rocket on Solid Ground This Month, Official Says
SpaceX may try to make history with its next launch later this month, returning its rocket to a landing pad rather than an ocean-based platform, a NASA official said on Tuesday. Carol Scott, who works technical integration for SpaceX within NASA's Commercial Crew Program, told reporters here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today that SpaceX's first attempt at a land-based rocket landing may be coming sooner than the public expects.
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Elon Musk Is Ready to Conquer Mars
Elon Musk is trying to change the world—even if that means leaving it
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Why we’re going back to the Moon—with or without NASA
The discovery of lunar water has changed everything for human exploration. by Eric Berger.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Returns to Flight, Sticks Landing at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX returned its Falcon 9 rocket to flight with flair tonight, successfully deploying 11 communications satellites after returning the rocket's first stage to Cape Canaveral for an upright landing.
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SpaceX Successfully Lands Rocket After Launch of Satellites Into Orbit
People living along the central Atlantic coast of Florida have for decades enjoyed the spectacle of rockets headed for space. On Monday night, they were treated to a new sight that may become common: a rocket coming back down to a gentle landing. “It really felt like it was right on top of us,” Elon Musk, the chief executive of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation of Hawthorne, Calif., or SpaceX for short, said during a telephone news conference afterward.
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Where to Land SpaceX's Recovered Falcon 9 Rocket Stage for Display
What do you do with a 15-story-tall space artifact? That's a question that SpaceX now faces given the historic landing of its Falcon 9 rocket's first stage on Dec. 21 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The commercial spaceflight company's recovery of the first stage, after launching 11 communication satellites to orbit, demonstrated the first part of its future plans for reusability. SpaceX intends to refurbish and re-fly its stages...
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SpaceX’s Next Steps Toward Rocket Reusability
Over the weekend, SpaceX revealed that there was no damage found on their recovered Falcon 9 and it was ready to be fired again.
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These Are the Space Missions to Watch in 2016
A brief rundown of the biggest spaceflight milestones to keep an eye out for this year. By Mike Wall.
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Video of SpaceX's rocket landing attempt reveals how close it came to success
It's the closest they've ever come.
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SpaceX fails in third attempt to stick landing on its drone barge
SpaceX's third attempt to land one of its rockets on an autonomous landing pad barge at sea on Sunday did not go as hoped once again. The first two attempts at this experimental landing ended with fantastic explosions as the Falcon 9 rocket failed to stick the landing just right. Sunday's mission successfully deployed the Jason-3 satellite, which will measure global sea levels, to a polar orbit (meaning it will circle the Earth from north to south instead of traveling...
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SpaceX successfully tests parachute for bringing astronauts back to earth
SpaceX performed a successful test of its parachute system for the Crew Dragon spacecraft near Coolidge, Arizona, as part of its final development and certification work with NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
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MIT students win Hyperloop pod design competition
Crews are already building the first Hyperloop tracks, but how about the vehicles to run on those tracks? Don't worry, they're coming soon: MIT has won a SpaceX competition that challenged students worldwide to design a pod for the ultra-fast tube transportation. The school's team gets to build a vehicle that will run on a yet-to-be-built test track near SpaceX's California headquarters. Not that some of its rivals will be left out, mind you.
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SpaceX calls last-second rocket abort
The California rocket company experiences a dramatic, last-second abort, as onboard computers shut down the engines on a Falcon 9 right at the moment of lift-off.
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SpaceX tries, tries again - and successfully launches satellite
SpaceX launched a satellite toward distant orbit on Friday after multiple delays. The private space exploration company, headed by Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:35 pm ET. SpaceX has set five different launch dates, the first of which was on February 25 -- and it has halted six countdowns due to problems with the rocket fuel, weather, and even...
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Here’s why the next SpaceX launch isn’t just about the booster landing
It's a big idea. It's a bold idea. And at first blush, it seems a bit of a daft idea. A company called Bigelow Aerospace wants to build space stations for the government and hotels for private customers that will inflate like balloons once they reach outer space. Bigelow’s inflatables have the potential to revolutionize spaceflight by providing lighter, and much larger, places to live in space. But the big question remains: Does anyone really want to live in a space balloon?
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SpaceX successfully lands its rocket on a floating drone ship for the first time
SpaceX has finally landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea, after launching the vehicle into space this afternoon. It's the first time the company has been able to pull off an ocean landing, after four previous attempts ended in failure.
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SpaceX's Landing Drone Ship Is Just As Complicated As The Rocket
SpaceX finally managed to land its Falcon 9 reusable rocket on its autonomous drone ship out at sea after four unsuccessful attempts, with plans for at least two more sea landings later this year.
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Inflatable room delivered to the International Space Station
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered the first inflatable room for astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral. Astronauts, including the UK’s Tim Peake, orbiting 250 miles above Earth used a robotic arm to capture the Dragon, which holds three tonnes of freight and had as part of its payload a soft-sided compartment built by Bigelow Aerospace. The pioneering pod, packed tightly for launch, should swell...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Development Supercut
It took them only four years. What will they do next?
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