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Secret US X-37B plane takes to the skies to experiment in space The mysterious X-37B plane is preparing to head into space for its fourth trip. But now, for the first time, we have a clue about what's happening inside. Earlier this month, NASA revealed that on this trip the plane will carry nearly 100 sm...
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Joint Europa Mission
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NASA and ESA join forces to build life-seeking Europa lander It will take more than six years to get there. But if long-anticipated signs of life are found on Europa, a newly-proposed joint American-European trek to the enigmatic moon of Jupiter will have been worth it. Called the Joint Europa Missi...
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Germany's first female astronaut
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Pilot, meteorologist vying to be 1st German female astronaut A fighter pilot and a meteorologist have made the finals in the race to become Germany's first female astronaut. A private group is hoping to raise 50 million euros ($53.6 million) to send a German woman to the International Space Station...
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Fire in space
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Open Science: Spacecraft Fire and Combustion Research Spoiler
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Expedition 50-51 Crew Undergoes Final Training Outside Moscow Spoiler
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Team Indus
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India's Team Indus is one of five groups in race to put a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon. Read more
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RS-25 Engine
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NASA's Stennis Space Center Conducts RS-25 Engine Test On March 23 Spoiler
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Falcon 9 CRS 10
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Falcon 9 to launch from NASA launchpad used for 1st Moon mission next week After more than five years, the historic launch pad has a rocket on it again. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has gone vertical at U.S. space agency NASA's historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) for the first time. According to the Calif...
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Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission
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NASA Mission Named 'Europa Clipper' NASA's upcoming mission to investigate the habitability of Jupiter's icy moon Europa now has a formal name: Europa Clipper. The moniker harkens back to the clipper ships that sailed across the oceans of Earth in the 19th century. Clipper ships were streamlined...
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Chang'e-5
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China's biggest moon challenge: returning to Earth China's lunar probe, Chang'e-5, will be launched around 2017 and its mission to collect samples from the moon and return to earth is the most challenging yet, according to Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program. Read more...
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Progress MS-05
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Progress MS-5 It is planned to be launched on March 1, 2017 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will use the 786th and last Soyuz-U rocket.[ Read more
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SpaceX Moon mission
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SpaceX to fly two tourists around Moon in 2018 US private rocket company SpaceX has announced that two private citizens have paid to be sent around the Moon. The mission is planned for late 2018, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said, adding that the tourists "have already paid a significant deposit". Read more
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Low-cost Launch opportunity Initiative
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Vega flight opportunity for multiple small satellites Europe's Vega small launcher is set to demonstrate its extended capability to deploy multiple light satellites using its new versatile Small Satellites Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser, in the second half of 2018. This demonstration prov...
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Kounotori 6
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Japan ISS Kounotori: Spacecraft launched to try to clear space junk Japan has launched a cargo ship which will use a 700m -long tether to remove some of the vast amount of debris from Earth's orbit. The tether, made of aluminium strands and steel wire, is designed to slow the debris, pulling it out of or...
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Astrophysics Explorers Program
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NASA Selects Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron s...
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