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Down to Earth Some recent crew assignment changes for the ISS have been receiving a lot of press, including the replacement of Jeanette Epps with Serena Aunon-Chancellor for a launch this summer. NASA...
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Down to Earth A new Kickstarter campaign seeks to build replicas of the Apollo guidance computer DSKY (Display and Keyboard) interface. NASA’s 15th Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) mission...
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Down to Earth Another government shutdown on Thursday night nearly impacted US federal government operations again (including NASA) but was ended in the middle of the night with a budget deal, before...
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In Orbit The new National Space Council hosted their second meeting, this time at Kennedy Space Center. Bigelow Aerospace has announced a new sister company, Bigelow Space Operations, who will market...
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Down to earth The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may see another launch slip. The world’s largest airplane, built by Stratolaunch in Mojave, California, was rolled out for runway tests. Captured new...
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Down to Earth NASA announced last week that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch date is slipping about a year to May 2020. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell celebrated their 90th...
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Down to Earth VSS Unity, the latest spacecraft from Virgin Galactic, made its first powered flight test yesterday. Video below. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has a new executive...
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Down to Earth SpaceX’s second Falcon Heavy launch has been delayed until October. Two New Space rocket companies, Virgin Orbit and Rocket Lab, have both been awarded contracts to fly NASA cubesat...
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Down to Earth NASA’s Marshall SpaceFlight Center has a new Director, Jody Singer. Members of the Jet Propulsion Lab’s media relations team have won an Emmy Award for coverage of the Cassini mission....
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Down to Earth The big news this week was the aborted ascent of Soyuz MS-10, planned to take Nick Hague and Aleksey Ovchinin to the International Space Station. The abort occurred 2 minutes into the...
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