SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft maneuvered into a higher orbit on Tuesday and is en-route to a Wednesday rendezvous with the International Space Station, aiming for a robotic capture at 11 UTC to mark the arrival of the vehicle’s precious science cargo eagerly awaited by the crew in orbit.
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Observers in Iran and Kuwait were baffled just after sunset on Sunday when a fast-moving object moved across the twilit skies and appeared to eject opaque clouds of gas.
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It was over five years ago that the flames of an ascending rocket last graced a Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad when the Space Shuttle lifted off on its final voyage in 2011.
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The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket is pictured during its propulsive landing at Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone-1, eight minutes after the rocket’s first launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A with the Dragon SpX-10 resupply craft headed to the International Space Station.
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Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39 returned to rocket launch operations on Sunday with a most impressive liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket – ushering in a new era of commercial launch operations from the storied space center.
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Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39 returned to rocket launch operations on Sunday with a most impressive liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket – ushering in a new era of commercial launch operations from the storied space center.
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The inaugural launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral’s historic Launch Complex 39A had to be scrubbed on Saturday after a late countdown abort due to a potential issue with an engine steering device on the rocket’s second stage.
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SpaceX and NASA are GO for Saturday’s planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon cargo spacecraft set for its tenth operational mission to the International Space Station, carrying 2,500 Kilograms of cargo to the orbiting laboratory.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands tall at Launch Complex 39A, awaiting its first launch from the Kennedy Space Center that will mark the revival of the historic LC-39A launch site that supported NASA’s Apollo missions to the lunar surface and the majority of Space Shuttle launches.
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Late load payloads are prepared at the Kennedy Space Sensor to be loaded into the Dragon SpX-10 cargo craft inside 24 hours to the vehicle’s launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
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The rumble of rocket engines returned to the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday when SpaceX’s Falcon 9 completed a milestone Static Fire Test at the historic Launch Complex 39A that was last used over five years ago by the final flight of the Space Shuttle.
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NASA’s SAGE-III Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment arrives at the Kennedy Space Center to undergo final processing before being loaded into the Trunk Section of the Dragon SpX-10 spacecraft
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