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  A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 last year in Washington. A

B1058 has two prior launches and two prior ASDS landings to its credit. Tomorrow morning, it aims to secure three for three on both. Photo Credit: Jeff Seibert/AmericaSpace More than a week later than originally planned, a previously-flown SpaceX Falcon 9 core stands primed on historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, ready to deliver another ...

  NASA launched the Mars 2020 mission, featuring the Perseverance rover, last

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  The same thruster design used for the Viking landers was resurrected for the

Half-shrouded in trusswork, the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage is pictured in the B-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss., earlier this month. Photo Credit: NASA After an uncertain and tragic year for us all, NASA’s efforts to prepare the core stage of the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for its forthcoming ...

  An Atlas V rocket carrying the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover lifts off July 30

  The Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour moments before splashdown August 2 that

The Delta IV Heavy has suffered four launch delays since 26 August, having now sat at SLC-37B for over ten months. Photo Credit: ULA More than ten months since it was rolled out to Space Launch Complex (SLC)-37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) beleaguered Delta IV Heavy must wait at least another day for ...

(22 September 2020 – JPL) NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has a challenging road ahead: After having to make it through the harrowing entry, descent, and landing phase of the mission on Feb. 18, 2021, it will begin searching for traces of microscopic life from billions of years back. That’s why it’s packing PIXL, a precision X-ray device powered by ...