How NASA outsourcing the space program helped enrich Elon Musk
After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...
Failure to launch: The huge rocket ‘stuck’ in a small Australian town
As tens of millions of people around the world watched two US astronauts safely return to earth, a key player in Australia’s ...
SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites 12 hours after Crew-10 sent to ISS
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, a little more than 12 hours after the private company teamed ...
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Space Force's Secret Plane Returns After More Than a Year in Orbit
The X-37B is a reusable robotic space plane operated by the US Space Force. It resembles a miniature space shuttle at just ...
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German military could launch intelligence satellites from Scotland
Intelligence-gathering satellites could be launched into space from Scotland under an initiative involving the German military. In a bid to strengthen Europe’s defence links, the German air force’s ...
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SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites 12 hours after Crew-10 sent to ISS
The launch window for another batch of Starlink satellites opens at ... to the ISS with the retirement of the shuttle. Russia still sends people to the Space Station with Suyuz.
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Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload
In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a ...