New Horizons will make its closest approach in the wee hours of Jan. 1 – 12:33 a. m. EST. Closest approach will bring the spacecraft within 2,200 miles ( 3,500 kilometers ) of Ultima Thule. Our team worked hard to…
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A Chinese space probe is moving into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first. It has a different composition than sites on the near side, where previous missions have landed. The spacecraft landed close…
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Astronauts Anne McClain from American space agency Nasa, David Saint-Jacques from the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos left aboard the Russian spacecraft from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. In August, the space station crew…
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Outer space
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory In Pasadena, California, Leads The Mission
by George Cronk December 28, 2018After cruising along behind NASA’s InSight for seven months, they successfully relayed data back down to Earth from the lander during its descent to the Martian surface on Monday, Nov. 26. The spacecraft landed around 12:00 p. m. PST on…
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The 45th Space Wing of the U. S. Air Force operates the Eastern Range from Cape Canaveral. The U.S. Air Force using its Falcon Heavy Rocket for a $ 130 million launch mission in 2020. SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches…
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The booster flown Tuesday has previously launched CubeSats as piggyback payloads on larger rockets. A new version of SpaceX’s falcon 9 rocket took flight for the first time. China sets launch date for lunar far side mission. Delta IV Heavy…