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Inflatable Shield for Earth Reentry Passes Test (2009-08-19)

Successful Test A Black Brant 9 rocket carries the Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The device released from its rocket and inflated to its full 10-foot ... [Read More]

Launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the classified PAN spacecraft for Lockheed Martin (2009-09-08)

The Atlas 5 rocket carrying a secretive communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. goverment blasted off at 5:35 p.m. EDT on a two-hour ascent from Cape Canaveral, Florida ... [Read More]

Jacques Valier Advanved Rocketry At The Cost Of His Life (2011-03-21)

Alamogordo Daily News By Michael Shinabery, New Mexico Museum of Space History Newspapers worldwide announced Jacques Valier's May 17, 1930, death, although details varied and were mostly wrong, ... [Read More]

45th Space Wing Successfully Launches First SBIRS GEO-1 Satellite (2011-05-08)

May 7, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch ... [Read More]

Launch Of A Delta IV Rocket With A GPS Block 2F Satellite (2011-07-18)

Here is a highlight video of the launch of a Delta IV rocket carrying a USAF GPS Block 2F satellite. Saturday July 16, 2011 [Read More]

NASA Dependent On Russian Soyuz Space Taxi For At Least Five More Years (2011-12-18)

(Reuters) - Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's ... [Read More]

North Korea's First Satellite Launch. A Rare Glimpse Into The Communist Countries Space Program. (2012-04-08)

First reports from Sohae launch pad Foreign reporters in Pyongyang to cover the planned launch this week of North Korea’s Unha-3 rocket were given a tour of the Sohae launch facility on ... [Read More]

Delta IV Heavy Launches NROL-15 (2012-07-02)

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., (June 29, 2012) — A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from ... [Read More]