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SpaceX Seeking Tweets From The Final Frontier

[/caption] Space Exploration Technologies -- or SpaceX as they are more commonly known -- has gotten pretty good at launching…

13 years ago

Dawn Closing in on Asteroid Vesta as Views Exceed Hubble

[/caption] A new world in our Solar System is about to be unveiled for the first time – the mysterious…

13 years ago

NASA Sets July 8 for Mandatory Space Shuttle Grand Finale

[/caption] NASA Shuttle managers met today (28 June) and officially set July 8 as the launch date for the Grand…

13 years ago

Burt Rutan’s Race To Space: A Primer For Things To Come

[/caption] Voyager, Proteus and SpaceShipOne have become aerospace legends. As has the man who established them all – Burt Rutan.…

13 years ago

End of the Shuttle Era: Q & A With Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – He has been with the shuttle program for the past three decades and has witnessed…

13 years ago

Final Shuttle Voyagers Conduct Countdown Practice at Florida Launch Pad

[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The “Final Four” shuttle astronauts who will ever voyage to Earth orbit aboard a NASA…

13 years ago

Dramatic New NASA Animation Depicts Next Mars Rover in Action

[/caption] NASA’s next Mars rover, the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory, will soon embark on a quantum leap in humankind’s scientific…

13 years ago

Packing a Mars Rover for the Trip to Florida

Check out this way cool time-lapse movie of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as its being packed up for her trip…

13 years ago

MESSENGER Unveiling Mercurys Hidden Secrets

[/caption] NASA’s MESSENGER probe to Mercury, the scorched, innermost planet of our solar system, is sending back so much startling…

13 years ago

Astronaut Mark Kelly Retires from NASA

[/caption] Astronaut Mark Kelly, commander of the recent STS-134 shuttle mission and husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, announced today via…

13 years ago