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Boeing/USAF Space Plane Flies Again in May
Images Credit & Copyright: United States Air Force (USAF) of X-37B (OTV-1) enclosed in the 5 meter payload fairing of its Atlas V launch vehicle. LAUNCH ALERT: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 10:45 EDT...
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Planetary Society’s LightSail 1 Takes Flight In May
Image Credit & Copyright: Planetary Society. If you’re a member of the Planetary Society (which all space nuts should be), or even if you just love new technology and spaceflight in general you’re...
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SUCCESS! SpaceX’s Dragon V2 Completes 1st Steps Toward Human Occupancy
Videos & Images Credit & Copyright: NASA & SpaceX. 09:00 on the morning of Wednesday, May 6, 2015 the long awaited, highly anticipated pad abort test of SpaceX’s Dragon V2 crewed capsule...
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Earth, Moon and Jupiter in the Same Image
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA. I don’t usually post my “On This Day In Space History” (OTDISH) here on the blog because there’s just so many, I felt that I should show this one off as its one of...
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OTV-4 & LightSail 1 Take Flight
Image & Video Credit & Copyright: United Launch Alliance (ULA). Late Wednsday morning at 11:05 EDT, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 501 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Space Launch...
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Ariane 5 Dual Payload Launch Next Week
Image Credit & Copyright: Arianespace launch of Ariane5 VA-215. Live streaming links below. LAUNCH ALERT: Wednesday, May 27 at 21:16 UTC (17:16 EDT) Arianespace will be launching the massive and...
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Like Never Seen Before
Image & Video Credit & Copyright: NASA & Roscosmos. May 23, 2011; As Soyuz TMA-20 undocked from the ISS to return the crew of Expedition 27 home to Earth they captured for the first time,...
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ISS & Moon Bid Atlantis Farewell
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA. As promised on Instagram, here’s that incredible image of STS-132 undocking with the stunning visual of the International Space Station (ISS) and the Moon beyond...
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Launch of the 79th Arianespace Ariane 5; VA223
Image & Video Credit & Copyright: Arianespace. On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 the 79th Arianespace, Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from Spaceport Kourou in French Guiana from Launch Site, Ensemble de...
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SpaceX GoPro Fairing Camera Action
Images & Video Credit & Copyright: SpaceX. What happens when you have your very own rocket company and you like cool visuals? You strap your rockets with numerous cameras so you capture the...
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The Mysterious Spots of Ceres
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA Dawn Spacecraft. I just wanted to take a moment and show off a new close image of dwarf planet Ceres’s mysterious spots. Way back when Hubble imaged Ceres, it...
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ISS Fades Away
Image Credit & Copyright: Me. Here’s another one that I captured, this time on June 9, 2015 and it’s of the International Space Station (ISS) rising off of the north-northwest (NNW) horizon and...
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Cassini; 10 Plus Years and Still Delivering
Images Credit & Copyright: NASA JPL Cassini Imaging Team. We’ve seen it before so we shouldn’t be surprised but this past week the folks at NASA’s Cassini Imaging Team delivered three gems in a...
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SpaceX CRS 7 ISS Resupply Launch & 1st Stage Landing Sunday!
Images & Video Credit & Copyright: SpaceX. LAUNCH ALERT: Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 10:21 EDT (14:21 UTC), a SpaceX Falcon 9, version 1.1 rocket will be launching from the Cape Canaveral Air...
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A Day of Learning at the Cape
Video & Images Credit & Copyright: Video conference by NASA & rudimentary screen caps from the SpaceX feed. I will post the videos as soon as NASA and SpaceX post the official videos if...
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Pluto in Our Sights
Pluto and Charon imaged by New Horizons on July 8, 2015 from a distance of 3.7 million miles. Images Credit & Copyright: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research...
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Pluto Takes the World by the Heart
Taken on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 476,000 mi (768,000 km) by New Horizons. Taken on July 14, 2015, Just 1.5 hours from close approach and at a distance of only 47,800 mi (77,000 km) by New...
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JAXA HTV-5 ISS Resupply Flight This Weekend
Images Credit & Copyright: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). On Sunday, August 16, at 12:58 UTC (08:58 EDT & 21:58 JST) the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be launching...
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Arianespace Ariane 5 Dual Payload Launch Next Week
Image Credit & Copyright: Arianespace. LAUNCH ALERT: Thursday, August 20 at 20:10 UTC (16:10 EDT) Arianespace will be launching the massive and beautiful Ariane 5 ECA Rocket (designated Flight...
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ULA Atlas V to Launch MUOS 4 for the U.S. Military
Image Credit & Copyright: United Launch Alliance (ULA) of the MUOS-3 Atlas V-551 launch vehicle. LAUNCH ALERT: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 08:07 UTC (04:07 EDT & 01:07 PDT) a United Launch...
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