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SpaceX announced that it will slip the launch of the Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 from the original 7 February 2012 date The specific

STS 133 launches in February 2011 Photo by the author taken at Space View Park Titusville Florida Despite the end of the space shuttle program

Made with NASA photos taken 240 miles above Earth and edited together by German artist Michael Konig this 4 1 2 minute film captures some

Soyuz TMA 22 launches from the snowy Baikonur Cosmodrome November 13 2011 at 11 14 p m EST This was the first manned launch since

A time lapse created by science educator James Drake who compiled 600 publicly available images taken from the front of the International Space Station as

According to Space com NASA officials announced this morning the ISS might be de crewed unmanned staring in November due to the recent Progress launch

It 8217 s been kind of a crazy week everywhere for pretty much everyone so I am going to keep this post short and sweet

Video of today 8217 s Progress M 12M 44P launch which re entered and crashed shortly following its launch due to a propulsion system failure

Atlantis Reentry as seen from the International Space Station Image Credit NASA Atlantis Cockpit View of Kennedy Space Center Image Credit NASA TV Atlantis Approach

Space shuttle Endeavour and the ISS docked as seen from a Soyuz capsule May 23 2011 Photo courtesy of Paulo Nespoli NASA nbsp At this

Part of a package I received from NASA in the 1980s Pictured a synopsis of the early shuttle missions and a space shuttle schematic poster

NASA has released images of Endeavour and the ISS They were taken by Paolo Nespoli from TMA 20 as the Russian spacecraft departed on 23

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