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NASA Shook Apollo Rockets To Check They Could Survive Florida’s Hurricane Season
NASA - Saturn V Apollo Shake Test To shake the 25-story rocket, workers at the base of the Saturn V rocket would push at the bottom of the craft with their feet. At the same time, engineers ...
Elon Musk's Starship blew up again — and our prospects of mining the moon hang in the balance
Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...
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Bridge Investment Group Stock Rockets 33% After Apollo To Acquire Company In $1.5B All-Stock Transaction: Retail’s Exuberant
Global alternative asset manager Apollo (APO) announced on Monday that it will acquire Bridge Investment Group Holdings Inc. (BRDG) in an all-stock transaction with an equity value of approximately $1 ...
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From launch to lunar landing: Photos show first journey to the moon 50 years ago
One of the largest machines ever built, the 363-foot rocket was as tall as a 36-story building. Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 ...
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NASA's 6 million pound crawler-transporter carries rockets
the crawler-transporters have been in use since the Apollo program to get vehicles from the assembly building to the launch facility. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science Rockets can ...
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SpaceX's latest rocket launch 'ranks up there with the first Apollo mission,' says a former Pentagon official - here's why
"It ranks up there with the first Apollo mission. This is a pretty amazing ... nearly three times as much payload as the next-best rocket today, yet for about 25% of the cost.
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Make the Moon Great Again — or lose it to China? The new space race heats up
Pic: AP Several of NASA's legacy contractors like Boeing and Northrop Gruman, which built the space shuttle and Apollo-era rockets, are big employers in certain congressional districts.