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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla –NASA’s next planned crewed spacecraft, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or “Orion MPCV” has turned a pivotal corner toward ferrying crews to possible destinations beyond low-Earth-orbit. The spacecraft which will conduct the Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) had its avionics systems installed, powered up and ran [...]
LAS CRUCES – As Spaceport America gets its finishing touches, awaiting the day that Virgin Galactic launches passengers beyond the stratosphere, more states are looking at entering the space industry, with a spaceport at the cornerstone of their plans. “It almost looks like wildflowers growing across the U.S., if you [...]
In the nation's capital, the fastest residential Internet connection money can buy tops out at 75 Mbps. That's pretty zippy. But it doesn't compare to the 622 Mbps monster pipe that NASA just successfully tested over a distance of 239,000 miles. Unfortunately, to take advantage of those speeds, you'd have [...]
Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus spacecraft ends its mission today with a blazing reentry over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand, carrying more than a ton of trash from the International Space Station. Astronauts aboard the space station loaded the unmanned Cygnus with 2,850 pounds of refuse before using the station’s [...]
