Antares Rocket

December 2013

Private Rocket Launch Thursday Night Visible from US East Coast
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Private Rocket Launch Thursday Night Visible from US East Coast

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Private Rocket Launch Thursday Night Visible from US East Coast

December 17th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: Antares Rocket, Commercial Space Industry, Commercial SpaceFlight, Cygnus, International Space Station, ISS, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Orbital Sciences|

People along the east coast of the United States should get a great opportunity to see a rocket launch from their own backyards this week. Weather permitting, observers from Massachusetts to the Carolinas could see an International Space Station-bound Cygnus spacecraft launch atop a two-stage Antares rocket Thursday (Dec. 19) [...]

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November 2013

To the moon? NASA passes the torch for space commercialization

November 14th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography, Video|Tags: Antares Rocket, Commercial Space Industry, Commercial SpaceFlight, Cygnus Capsule, Dragon, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, Orbital Sciences, Space X|

NASA celebrates the successes of its commercial space program. NASA's chief closed out the space agency's first campaign to commercialize spaceflight on Wednesday, marking a transition to more ambitious efforts to create new U.S. spaceships that could send astronauts into orbit — and perhaps back to the moon [...]

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