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SpaceShipTwo Fires Rocket Engines for First Ever Supersonic Test Flight- Photos & Video

April 29, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter In a momentous and long awaited day in spaceflight, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) commercial spaceliner named “Enterprise” lit up her hybrid rocket engines in flight and reached supersonic speeds for the first time in history, today, Monday, April 29, 2013 – [...]

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Berth of a Dragon after Thruster Failure Recovery Establishes American Lifeline to ISS

March 3, 2013

Kennedy Space Center – After overcoming a frightening thruster failure that could have spelled rapid doom on the heels of a breathtakingly beautiful launch, the privately developed Dragon spacecraft successfully berthed at the International Space Station (ISS) a short while ago, at 8:56 a.m. EST Sunday morning, March 3, 2013 – thereby establishing an indispensable [...]

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SpaceX Commercial Rocket Poised for March 1 Blast Off to ISS

March 1, 2013

Kennedy Space Center – All systems are GO and the weather outlook looks spectacular for the March 1 blast off of the privately developed SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). The Falcon 9 is slated to lift off at 10:10 AM EST with a Dragon capsule loaded with fresh supplies and [...]

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Private Test Pilots to Fly 1st Commercial Crewed Space Flights for NASA

January 13, 2013

Image Caption: Dream Chaser commercial crew vehicle built by Sierra Nevada Corp docks at ISS Commercial test pilots, not NASA astronauts, will fly the first crewed missions that NASA hopes will at last restore America’s capability to blast humans to Earth orbit from American soil – perhaps as early as 2015 – which was totally [...]

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A Banner Week for Commercial Spaceflight

June 1, 2012

While SpaceX stole the headlines with their Dragon spacecraft making the first private cargo run to the International Space Station, they weren’t the only commercial space company to make great strides for the future. “This has been an incredible couple of weeks for the companies in the commercial spaceflight industry,” said former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, [...]

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