Jun 13 2016
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The world’s most powerful rocket launched this weekend carrying... well, we’re still not quite sure what it was…
Feb 25 2015
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Best light show ever. Pictured above: auroras, plus a fireball from space. The mysterious streak of lights was identified by the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA as a Chinese rocket body [NORAD ID 40363]. Photo by Rocky Raybell/Flickr.
Feb 28 2014
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Rocket hardware is always awesome eye candy, no matter what country is sending stuff into space. Awesome, and, well,…
Jul 8 2011
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off for its final flight, in spite of predictions that weather might have delayed…
Dec 30 2010
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Cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev recently arrived at the International Space Station, along with astronauts Cady Colemand…
Oct 8 2010
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A rusty old cart sits in front of the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, just a few…
Sep 15 2010
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Once, these rocket ships helped countless schoolchildren to conquer the vast reaches of space. Now, they look like a…
Jun 11 2010
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That's not a happy rocket-launch picture. South Korea lost contact with its Naro-1 rocket right after launch, and…
Jun 4 2010
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The co-founder of PayPal just launched a rocket, the Falcon 9, which hopes to put a space capsule, the Dragon, into…
May 14 2010
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis has its final launch, in this breathtaking picture from Cape Canaveral. Atlantis will…
Oct 28 2009
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Early this morning, NASA launched the Ares I-X rocket on a sub-orbital test flight - this is the first new rocket…
Oct 21 2009
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Marvel at the beauty of NASA's Ares I-X test rocket, due to launch on Tuesday. If all goes well, NASA can move…
Aug 19 2009
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Here's South Korea's first space rocket, the prosaically named Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, whose scheduled launch…
Jul 17 2009
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Check out this row of experimental astronaut suits — they look like something out of Tintin. With the 40th…
Jul 8 2009
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A specially designed rocket soars over Wallops Island, VA, on its way to test a new astronaut escape system for…
Apr 14 2009
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This rocket sled is moving at 3300 mph, an astonishing land speed captured here with extreme flash photography.…
Aug 19 2008
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Click to viewThis Russian Proton rocket, looking like something out of a 60s sci-fi novel, launched yesterday from…
Feb 7 2008
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We finally got the Space Shuttle Atlantis off the ground, after two months of delays and accidents, and it looks…
Dec 7 2007
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Last nights' space shuttle Atlantis liftoff was delayed until Saturday due to engineering problems, but the shuttle…