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Our Future in Space: Moving Offworld

Three milestones in space were passed in the last four days. The NASA spacecraft Dawn began its close approach to the second largest of the know asteroids in the asteroid belt, the asteroid Vesta. The final space shuttle mission ended with the landing of Atlantis this morning. And, yesterday marked the anniversary of the day [...]

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch – success!

Update on previous post: The SpaceX company of Elon Musk launched its Falcon 9 into orbit for the first time today – this is one of the private spacecraft that NASA is counting on for future access to space. After one aborted launch attempt that shut down automatically when telemetry readings were not correct, a [...]

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