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SpaceX Set To Launch From Kennedy Space Center

In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket launched with the JCSAT-14 …

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How to Watch Today's Historic SpaceX Launch

Today, SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Launch Complex 39A for the first time. The mission was originally scheduled to happen last …

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President Trump is in Florida for a campaign-style rally

President Trump traveled Friday to Florida, where he will stay at his Mar-a-Lago resort for the weekend and hold a large, campaign-style rally …

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SpaceX poised for historic launch

SpaceX is readying a Falcon 9 rocket for launch Saturday from the same pad that once sent Apollo moonships and shuttles on their way

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Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Has a “Small Leak”

Things are good to go (and the mission patch looks sweet) for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch Saturday, except for one little snag: CEO Elon Musk says there …

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WATCH: SpaceX rocket blasts off from historic Apollo launchpad

Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket at 10:01 a.m. Saturday from the historic Kennedy Space Center launchpad used by the Apollo …

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SpaceX Falcon rocket poised for flight from historic NASA launchpad

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was poised for a debut flight on Saturday from a NASA launchpad idled since the end of the space …

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Moonshot pad roaring back into action with SpaceX launch

The launch pad used to send Americans to the moon and shuttle astronauts into orbit is roaring back into action.<p>Dormant for nearly six years, Launch …

NASA

NASA, Kennedy Space Center await direction from Trump

CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA and Kennedy Space Center are awaiting direction from the Trump administration about whether it wants to make changes to NASA’s human exploration program, the center's director said Tuesday.<p>“The presidential appointments team is still in the process of gathering data,” Director …

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This Is How India’s Space Agency Plans to Launch a Record 104 Satellites in One Go

ISRO will use the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to carry three satellites from India, and 101 smaller satellites from five countries<p>ENLARGE<p>India’s space agency will next month attempt to launch 104 satellites from a single rocket, a mission that could land it in the record books.<p>The Indian Space …

Space

Russia's Proton M Rocket To Remain Grounded For 3.5 Months

Russia’s Proton M rocket will remain grounded for another three and a half months, the country’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said this weekend.<p>The heavy carrier was last used nearly two months ago, when it was supposed to launch an International Space Station cargoship, but blew up just …

Russia

Historic SpaceX launch scuttled, re-set for Sunday

Elon Musk's rocket company had to put off sending snacks to the International Space Station and simultaneously opening a new chapter in space history by one day.<p>SpaceX continues to tease us with a new era in history. The company was set to make the first rocket launch in years from the same pad …

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SpaceX Halts Launch of Rocket 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff - Bloomberg

Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. halted the launch of its second rocket in as many months on Saturday, about 10 seconds before its …

Space Travel

Watch SpaceX's Newest Falcon 9 Rocket Launch

The CRS-10 mission will bring supplies and maintenance equipment to the ISS> ―<p>Today at 10:01 a.m. EST, Space X will launch its Falcon 9 rocket on its 10th resupply mission to the International Space Station. The rocket will carry supplies for the station as well as the Raven module, which will help …

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The Latest: SpaceX cancels rocket launch from NASA moon pad

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on SpaceX rocket launch that was scheduled for liftoff Saturday (all times local):<p>10:01 a.m.<p>SpaceX will have to wait at least another day to launch from NASA's historic moon pad.<p>Last-minute rocket trouble forced SpaceX to halt Saturday's countdown at Florida's …

Aerospace

Morning brief: F-15s, F-18s, F-35s and more to know today

<b>SUPERSONIC RESPONSE</b><p>Two F-15s caused a ‘sonic boom’ as they raced from their home base in Homestead, Fla., Friday evening to intercept an unresponsive general aviation aircraft that flew near Palm Beach during a stay by President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. The fighter jets were able to establish …

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SpaceX poised to launch from historic NASA pad

Space X's Falcon 9 rocket is prepared on February 17, 2017 for a launch at the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. Photo: BRUCE WEAVER / AFP<p>MIAMI - An …

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Scientists Are Sending a Lethal Pathogen to the Space Station This Weekend

On Saturday, February 18th, a SpaceX Dragon capsule will shuttle a superbug into space that kills more Americans each year than emphysema, HIV/AIDS, …

NASA

Watch Live: SpaceX Launches NASA ‘Three-Eyed Raven’ Into Space

SpaceX is scheduled to launch a piece of NASA technology into space Saturday that will test out a new type of navigation system.<p>The module, dubbed …

Aerospace

The 10th SpaceX Mission to the ISS Has an Incredible Patch

SpaceX’s tenth Commercial Resupply Service Mission to the International Space Station takes off Saturday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in …

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SpaceX-NASA joint rocket launch delayed

10:06 a.m. ET<p>Speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov outlined Moscow's vision for the future shape …

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Elon Musk is a SpaceX truther

The CEO tests the outer boundaries of tone on the internet<p>Over the past two years, SpaceX has been working to make its rockets reusable by landing the vehicles upright after they launch to space. Many of those landing attempts have been successful, but since we live in a world where the word “fake” …

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Sorry, y'all. SpaceX isn't going to Mars in 2018

In April 2016, SpaceX made the bold proclamation that it will send a robotic mission to Mars by 2018.<p>Today, the Elon Musk-founded company is singing a different tune.<p>Instead of aiming for the 2018 deadline, SpaceX will now try to launch a robotic mission to Mars — known as its Red Dragon mission — …

Aerospace

SpaceX’s launch this weekend is a monument to space capitalism—just ask NASA

Kennedy Space Center, Florida<p>It’s been nearly six years since a rocket lifted off from NASA’s Launch Pad 39-A, when the final Space Shuttle mission took flight. For a moment it seemed like the pipes, tanks, and towers of the launch complex built for the US at the dawn of the space age—Apollo 11 …

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Watch SpaceX Try to Launch NASA’s Science Into Space

SpaceX is back, and it’s launching your tax dollars into low Earth orbit. Saturday morning will mark the private rocket company’s tenth mission to …

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Mark Sanford isn't afraid to criticize President Trump because 'truth matters'

10:22 a.m. ET<p>The Islamic State lost about a quarter of its territory in 2016, but in the areas the terrorist organization retains, indoctrination …

Aerospace

The Government Still Thinks SpaceX's Dragon Program is Risky

Both SpaceX and Boeing have high-flying plans to send NASA’s astronauts to the International Space Station, or bring them home, by about 2019 — but …

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India’s space agency has a new fan: Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a tough cookie to impress. At job interviews, the co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX is known to ask notoriously difficult questions. And if and when he’s hired someone, he can apparently be an incredibly demanding boss.<p>Even on Twitter, where the billionaire has been pottering around since …

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Historic Liftoffs From Pad 39A - From Apollo to SpaceX | Video

Relive the Apollo 4, Apollo 11, Skylab 1, STS-1 and STS-135 lift-offs from the historic launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX looks to make …

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Florida's Space Coast Is Filling the 'Crater' Left by NASA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—Launch pad 39A hasn’t hosted a liftoff since July 2011 when orbiter Atlantis’ final flight marked the end of NASA’s space shuttle program, a painful moment for the region that resulted in the loss of 9,000 jobs.<p>As soon as Saturday, the launch pad will be back in use but …

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