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Chinese astronauts go hands-on, manually dock with orbiting module

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Looks like China continues to add to its space cred after recently joining the rarefied ranks of countries that have successfully docked craft in the final frontier. Fresh off from the recent joining of the Shenzhou 9 capsule with the Tiangong 1 orbi…


Chinese astronauts go hands-on, manually dock with orbiting module

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Looks like China continues to add to its space cred after recently joining the rarefied ranks of countries that have successfully docked craft in the final frontier. Fresh off from the recent joining of the Shenzhou 9 capsule with the Tiangong 1 orbi…


Excalibur Almaz wants to offer the first private trip to the Moon — provided you’ve got £100 million

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Sir Richard Branson might want to look over his shoulder, since Virgin Galactic now has an even more ambitious rival. Britain-based Excalibur Almaz is planning no less than a trip to the Moon using reworked, Soviet-era Salyut space stations and Soyuz…


China planning manned mission to its own space station, didn’t want to be on the ISS anyway

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State news agency Xinhua is reporting that China is planning to launch a manned spacecraft later this month. A Shenzhou-9 capsule and rocket are already in place, and when it launches it’ll manually dock with the nation’s space station: Tiangong-1. T…


Visualized: SpaceX’s Dragon is a desolate vision in beige and white

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Even if you squint real hard, you won’t find Andie, Max or that rogue robot Jinx stowed away in that inner sanctum above. In fact, there are no humans on board Dragon whatsoever, given that this mission — the first successful private / federal partn…


SpaceX Dragon is ready for launch (update: launched!), view the live stream now

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After being scrubbed a few days ago, it appears we are just minutes from viewing the launch of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket. The plan is to become the first private company to successfully deliver cargo to the space station, as a step…


SpaceX Dragon is ready for launch (update: launched!), view the live stream now

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After being scrubbed a few days ago, it appears we are just minutes from viewing the launch of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket. The plan is to become the first private company to successfully deliver cargo to the space station, as a step…


ISS ready for new zero-g experiments, students asked to float ideas

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Those secret space experiments you’ve been scheming? They may never happen if you try to go it alone. Fortunately, the space science group NCESSE can get you a ride, having started the countdown for its fifth wave of microgravity experiments aboard t…


Boeing CST-100 capsule could shuttle astronauts to ISS, shows off its innards in Colorado Springs

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With the Space Shuttle now officially grounded, NASA has been researching alternatives for ferrying astronauts from Earth to the International Space Station, orbiting some 230 miles above the planet. One such vehicle has made its way from Boeing’s HQ…


NASA activates Robotnaut 2 on board the ISS, watch it live (video)

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You’ve already seen it unboxed on board the International Space Station, and now you can watch as the crew of the ISS activates Robotnaut 2 and begins to put it through its paces. The robot was turned on just before eleven o’clock Eastern, but there’…