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Expedition 32 Crew Lifts Off

At 9:40 p.m. CDT a Soyuz TMA-05M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Expedition 32 Commander Yuri…

12 years ago

NASA To Launch The Finest Mirrors Ever Made

This Wednesday NASA will launch its High Resolution Coronal Imager (HI-C) mission from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico,…

12 years ago

What Will Happen During Tomorrow’s SpaceX Launch:

With less than a day left before SpaceX's historic launch of the first commercial vehicle to the ISS, slated for…

12 years ago

Expedition 31 Blasts Off!

[/caption] After a six-week delay, the crew of Expedition 31 successfully launched aboard a Soyuz TMA-04M rocket on Tuesday, May…

12 years ago

The View From Freedom 7

51 years ago today, on May 5, 1961, NASA launched the Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket carrying Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard…

12 years ago

Yes, As a Matter of Fact It IS Rocket Science

[/caption] On the afternoon of February 24, 2012, at 5:15 p.m. EST local time, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V…

12 years ago

Two Days of Tweetness: Witnessing a Shuttle Launch

It's been over a week since the NASA Tweetup and I'm still thinking about it. For good reason, of course...…

13 years ago

Bringing You There: Atlantis Roars into Orbit One Final Time

Videographers David Gonzales, Kurt Johnson and Mike Deep filmed the final launch of the Space Shuttle from the Kennedy Space…

13 years ago

The Final Countdown: Fueling the Anticipation

An update on my NASA Tweetup adventure... The launch of the space shuttle Atlantis is just a week away, and…

13 years ago

The Final Countdown: A Tweetup Journal

On July 8, less than a month from now, the last remaining space shuttle is slated to launch from Cape…

13 years ago