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Russia’s Soyuz Spacecraft: 46 Years and Still Soaring High

December 18, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter In just a couple of days a Soyuz rocket will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Roman Romanenko within the TMA-07M capsule on a two-day [...]

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This is Awesome: U.S. Space Team’s “Up Goer Five”

November 12, 2012

xkcd presents a Saturn V schematic using the 1,000 most used English words (xkcd.com) Randall Munroe at xkcd did it again, this time with an illustration of a Saturn V described using only the 1,000 — er, ten hundred — words people use most often. The result is amusing, insightful and, as always, undeniably awesome. [...]

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Exploded Rocket Fragments Could Endanger ISS and Future Missions

October 25, 2012

The International Space Station will have to look out for new debris from an exploded Russian rocket (NASA image) Traveling through low-Earth orbit just got a little more dangerous; a drifting Russian Breeze M (Briz-M) rocket stage that failed to execute its final burns back on August 6 has recently exploded, sending hundreds of shattered [...]

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NASA’s Colossal Crawler Gets Souped-Up for SLS

September 6, 2012

Shuttle Discovery riding one of KSC’s crawler-transporters to Launch Pad 39B in June 2005 (NASA) One of NASA’s two iconic crawler-transporters — the 2,750-ton monster vehicles that have delivered rockets from Saturns to Shuttles to launch pads at Kennedy Space Center for nearly half a century — is getting an upgrade in preparation for NASA’s [...]

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Morpheus Lander Crashes and Burns

August 9, 2012

NASA’s “lean and green” Morpheus lander crashed and burned during a free flight test at Kennedy Space Center today, August 9, at approximately 12:46 pm EDT. Watch a video of the failed test after the jump: Remove this ad

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