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NASA says that a minor accident that destroyed a crucial Crew Dragon mockup on March 24th should have minimal impact on the spacecraft's astronaut launch debut. (Richard Angle)

NASA has good news after SpaceX Crew Dragon parachute test accident

NASA has good news after SpaceX suffered an accident that destroyed a Crew Dragon mockup before it could complete a parachute test,...

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SpaceX wins NASA contract to deliver cargo to Lunar Gateway moon outpost

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has delivered cargo to the International Space Station, but soon it will carry goods to an orbit higher than...

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SpaceX dropped a Crew Dragon mockup to save a helicopter and its passengers

SpaceX says it encountered an issue that forced it to drop a Crew Dragon spacecraft mockup during parachute testing — not a...

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SpaceX's in-flight rocket engine failure threatens NASA astronaut launch debut

An in-flight rocket engine failure during SpaceX’s March 18th Starlink launch could pose a threat to the company’s imminent NASA astronaut launch...

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Future Mars astronauts’ diet will likely include space lettuce

Elon Musk wants to send a million people to Mars, and we would love to see that happen sooner rather than later....

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SpaceX, NASA ready for first crewed launch from US soil in almost a decade

On Wednesday, March 18th, NASA invited media to attend SpaceX’s highly anticipated upcoming Demo-2 mission confirming that SpaceX would be the first...

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Elon Musk on humans in Mars before he dies, urges faster pace of progress

Elon Musk has a major goal: to get humanity to Mars before he dies. A lofty goal that he reiterated before a...

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NASA’s Curiosity rover discovers interesting Martian organics

NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet, tasked with one major goal: to assess the habitability of Mars. The rover...

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NASA’s newest Mars rover gets christened with a ‘strong’ official name

NASA’s next Mars rover will depart Earth in July, bound for the red planet. After landing in Feb. of next year, the...

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SpaceX nails 50th rocket booster landing ahead of Crew Dragon takeover

On its fifth launch of 2020, SpaceX has nailed its 50th Falcon rocket booster landing and sent Cargo Dragon (Dragon 1) en...

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SpaceX on track for last Cargo Dragon launch, first Falcon 9 land landing in months

SpaceX is hours away from its Cargo Dragon (Dragon 1) spacecraft’s last space station resupply mission, a historic launch that will also...

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover captures epic view of Martian surface

NASA’s Curiosity rover is quite the photographer. As most Americans were busy chowing down on their favorite Thanksgiving dinner, the six-wheeled robotic explorer...

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‘Marsquakes’ are a thing and they can tell us a lot about the red planet

NASA’s InSight lander has spent the last year listening to the deep rumble of the red planet’s interior. And its first batch...

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SpaceX first orbital spacecraft set to smash reusability record on last launch

The first orbital spacecraft designed and built by SpaceX is set to smash a reusability record on its 20th and final International...

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Mars could have a Leap Day like Earth but way more complicated

February 29, “leap day”, is an oddity on the calendar that occurs every four years in an attempt to sync up the...

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SpaceX wins launch contract for NASA mission to study unique metal asteroid

SpaceX has been awarded a $117 million launch contract for NASA’s Psyche mission that will study a unique metal asteroid between Mars...

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SpaceX Starlink launch ambitions just saved a space station resupply mission from bigger delays

SpaceX’s ambitious 2020 Starlink launch goals have unintentionally saved a Cargo Dragon spacecraft mission from much longer delays after a major part...