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When Will Human Spaceflight Return to American Soil?

It’s the ultimate question and one we’ve been asking since NASA retired the celebrated Space Shuttle program in 2011 with the final launch of the Atlantis. Since then, the federal space agency has created commercial crew contracts that will allow private companies like Boeing and SpaceX to taxi NASA astronauts to the International Space Station […]

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SpaceX to Launch Secret Space Plane on Thursday

Featured image: The Air Force X-37B space plane (Boeing) Back in May, the Air Force’s classified X-37B space plane touched down at Kennedy Space Center’s former Space Shuttle Landing Facility after a two-year mission. On Thursday, the mini fixed-wing spacecraft will be launched to orbit again atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is scheduled […]

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