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May 31, 2012
The SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Thursday at 11:42am ET in a momentous end to the California company's test mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
May 31, 2012
After more than a year in space, the U.S. Air Force's secretive robotic space plane, the X-37B, is coming down soon.That's the word May 30 from officials at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the site where the reusable miniature space shuttle will land in the next few weeks.
May 30, 2012
Virgin Galactic says it expects to make rocket-powered test flights of its passenger spaceship later this year.
May 30, 2012
Two small asteroids zipped close by Earth in back-to-back flybys of the planet Monday (May 28) and Tuesday. While both space rocks came well within the moon's orbit, they posed no danger to our planet, NASA scientists say.
May 29, 2012
Last summer, Swedish treasure hunters discovered an unidentified object more than 200 feet wide at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Now a team of oceanographers, engineers and deep sea divers will return to the site Friday, June 1, to find out once and for all what it really is.
May 29, 2012
Kazakhstan’s space agency Kazcosmos is blocking three Russian Soyuz satellite launches over a dispute over the drop zone for debris, according to a report from the AFP.
May 28, 2012
The "ring of fire" solar eclipse may be history, but skywatchers have another stunning event to look forward to — June's historic Venus transit of the sun.
May 26, 2012
Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.
May 26, 2012
A potential alien planet that is so close to its parent star that it appears to be disintegrating from the scorching heat was recently found by a team of astronomers.
May 25, 2012
The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday, captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.
May 24, 2012
In a four part interview with Neil Armstrong, the man who stopped the world back in 1969 with his historic walk on the moon, Armstrong talked through those final knuckle-whitening minutes when he nearly set down among a minefield of slopes and boulders on the lunar surface.
May 24, 2012
A private spaceship on its first trip to the International Space Station made a flyby of the orbiting laboratory early Thursday, zipping just below the outpost in an unprecedented space first.
May 23, 2012
The first commercial spacecraft ever launched toward the International Space Station is playing a game of catch-up today (May 23) as it heads toward an unprecedented rendezvous with the orbiting lab.Dragon, built by commercial rocket firm Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
May 22, 2012
Scotty has finally been beamed up. The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the 1960s television series "Star Trek," were launched to space this morning (May 22) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
May 22, 2012
A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.
May 22, 2012
Many scientists say it's just a matter of time before we find evidence it exists, and now, anyone can get in on the hunt -- as long as they have a computer.
May 21, 2012
The private rocket company SpaceX is officially "go" to make a second try at launching its unmanned Dragon capsule early Tuesday, May 22, from Florida's Space Coast.
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