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Mammoth Delta IV Heavy Primed for Wednesday Mission to Launch Classified NROL-65 Satellite 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
It has been over two years since Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., last played host to the world’s largest and most powerful rocket in active service. The scorching of the Delta IV Heavy in the secon...
ULA Mariner Delivers Atlas V Rocket for NASA’s MAVEN Mission to Mars 27 Aug 2013 | 05:18 am
The ULA Mariner, operated by Foss Marine, safely delivered the first stage and Centaur upper stage which will be used to begin NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft on the r...
Astronaut Gregory H. Johnson Leaves NASA 27 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
Gregory H. Johnson, a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, has left NASA for pastures new. Photo Credit: NASA Almost half a century ago, a grainy television picture of a man bouncing around on the ...
First Flight of Japanese ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Rocket Set for Tuesday 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The SPRINT-A satellite undergoes final checkout, ahead of its scheduled launch aboard the first Epsilon rocket. Photo Credit: JAXA/ISAS More than five decades of rocketry from Japan’s Kagoshima Prefe...
Retro Space Images Offers Stunning Saturn Package 26 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
Image Credit: Retro Space Images Retro Space Images is offering up rare imagery from NASA’s Saturn V Moon rocket. The package has a collection of photos from the Apollo era from 1967-1973. While you ...
Retro Space Images: Happy Birthday to Astronaut Joe Engle 26 Aug 2013 | 02:11 pm
Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Another Year Tacked On: Happy Birthday Wishes to X-15 pilot, and NASA group 5 astronaut Joe Engle. Born in 1932, Engle served as commander of STS-2 in 1981 and...
Spitzer Space Telescope Celebrates 10 Years of Astronomical Discovery 26 Aug 2013 | 12:35 am
The infrared vision of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that the Sombrero galaxy — named after its appearance in visible light to a wide-brimmed hat — is in fact two galaxies in one. Image ...
Sunday Stellar Spectacular: Imaging the Cosmos 25 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The Andromeda Galaxy, M31. Photo Credit: Chris Hetlage / Imaging the Cosmos Chris Hetlage with Imaging the Cosmos offers up another stunning array of images from his observatory at the Deerlick Astro...
Elysium Space: You Too Can Go to the Final Frontier, But Not Like in the Movie 25 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
For only $1,190, you too can be sent into space after you die. Image Credit: Elysium Space The new science fiction film Elysium offers a unique twist on an old theme—rich vs. poor—as a possible futur...
‘If Something Happens’: Mission 51I and the End of an Era 25 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The sheer size of the 15,000-pound Leasat-3 satellite is illustrated in this view of James “Ox” van Hoften manhandling it into space on Mission 51I. Photo Credit: NASA For Dick Covey, the pilot of Mi...
