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NASA selects Boeing and SpaceX for commercial crew contracts Posted: Tue, Sep 16 10:32 PM ET (0232 GMT) NASA awarded contracts valued at $6.8 billion Tuesday to Boeing and SpaceX to develop vehicles that will transport NASA astronauts to and from the... NASA report criticizes management of NEO program office Posted: Tue, Sep 16 10:16 PM ET (0216 GMT) A NASA office charged with oversight of the agency's efforts to search for near Earth objects (NEOs) lacks the staff and structure to effectively... ESA picks comet landing site Posted: Tue, Sep 16 8:29 AM ET (1229 GMT) The European Space Agency announced Monday that it has selected a location on the surface of a comet where it will attempt to land a... Ariane launches two communications satellites Posted: Fri, Sep 12 7:25 AM ET (1125 GMT) An Ariane 5 rocket placed two communications satellites into orbit Thursday evening. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 6:05... Curiosity reaches base of Mount Sharp Posted: Fri, Sep 12 7:13 AM ET (1113 GMT) NASA announced Thursday that the Mars rover Curiosity has arrived at the base of a Martian mountain that it will soon start to climb. The... Soyuz returns ISS crew members to Earth Posted: Thu, Sep 11 8:21 AM ET (1221 GMT) A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut landed safely in Kazakhstan early Thursday, ending a nearly six-month mission on the... China launches imaging satellite Posted: Tue, Sep 9 10:30 AM ET (1430 GMT) A Long March rocket launched on Monday a remote sensing satellite likely to be used by the Chinese military. The Long March 4B rocket lifted... SSL, ViaSat reach settlement on dispute Posted: Mon, Sep 8 6:03 AM ET (1003 GMT) Space Systems Loral and ViaSat announced this weekend an out-of-court settlement to an ongoing legal dispute regarding breach of contract and patent infringement... Falcon 9 launches AsiaSat 6 Posted: Sun, Sep 7 10:44 AM ET (1444 GMT) For the second time in as many months, a Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a communications satellite for an Asian company early Sunday. The Falcon... Review approves extensions of planetary missions, but criticizes MSL Posted: Sat, Sep 6 3:14 PM ET (1914 GMT) A review of ongoing planetary science missions released this week recommended that all missions it considered be continued, but criticized NASA's flagship Mars rover... |
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