SpaceX chalked up another big test flight Wednesday, firing a capsule into the air to try out its new, super-streamlined launch escape system for astronauts.
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May 6, 2015
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SpaceX is just days away from shooting up a crew capsule to test a launch escape system designed to save astronauts' lives.
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May 1, 2015
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SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship blasted off Tuesday toward the International Space Station, carrying a load of food and supplies for the astronauts living in orbit.
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Apr 14, 2015
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SpaceX called off Sunday's planned launch of a deep-space observatory—and a revolutionary rocket-landing attempt—after a critical radar-tracking system failed.
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Feb 9, 2015
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Nine years after leaving Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is at last drawing close to Pluto and on Sunday was expected to start shooting photographs of the dwarf planet.
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Jan 25, 2015
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It's showtime for Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 3 billion miles and is nearing the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. Sunday, it begins photographing the mysterious, unexplored, icy world once deemed ...
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Jan 23, 2015
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SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship arrived Monday at the International Space Station, carrying 2.6 tons of food and supplies for the astronauts at the orbiting research laboratory.
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Jan 12, 2015
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The space station astronauts will have to wait until next month for their Christmas delivery.
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Dec 18, 2014
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(AP)—A top-secret space plane landed Friday at an Air Force base on the Southern California coast.
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Oct 17, 2014
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NASA is a giant step closer to launching Americans again from U.S. soil. On Tuesday, the space agency picked Boeing and SpaceX to transport astronauts to the International Space Station in the next few years.
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Sep 16, 2014
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