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A New Generation Of Spacecraft Head To The ISS

While many in the industry were at first skeptical of NASA’s goal to put resupply flights to the International Space Station ...
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NASA's Dream Chaser Space Plane Is Finally Complete!

NASA's Dream Chaser is Online! This revolutionary spaceplane is set to redefine space travel with its shuttle-like design, reusability, and autonomous capabilities. Built to deliver cargo to the ISS, ...

Secretive mini space shuttle launches on Space Coast

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force hitched a ride on SpaceX to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which ...
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China's New Space Cargo Shuttle Launches To Tiangong Space Station In Animation

China's new Haolong space cargo shuttle. See it launch in this animation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

SpaceX called off a launch attempt Sunday after detecting a leak in the plumbing that flows super-cold liquid oxygen ...

Mascara and strings of tampons: How Nasa's baffled engineers tried to prepare for the first female astronauts in space

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...
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NASA's first Space Shuttle astronaut selection redefining the right stuff David J. Shayler, Colin Burgess

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...
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'A game changer': Space shuttle astronaut Pam Melroy joins Venus Aerospace after revolutionary rocket engine breakthrough

Former NASA deputy chief and shuttle commander Pam Melroy has joined Venus Aerospace's board after its groundbreaking RDRE flight, bringing her decades of experience to help scale the startup's ...