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December 2013

The 7 Ships of the New Space Age
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The 7 Ships of the New Space Age

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The 7 Ships of the New Space Age

December 30th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: Blue Origin, Commercial Space Industry, Commercial SpaceFlight, Dennis Tito, Dragon, DragonRider, Dream Chaser, Elon Musk, Inspiration Mars, International Space Station, ISS, Jeff Bezos, Launches, Lynx, Mars, NASA, New Mexico, New Shepard, Orbit, Orion, Richard Branson, Sierra Nevada, Spaceport, Spaceport America, SpaceShipTwo, SpaceX, virgin galactic, Xcor|

American engineers are designing and testing more new manned spacecraft than at any other time in history. Here are 7 vehicles that will change how we work and play in space. XCOR Aerospace Lynx Lynx Type: Self-launched space plane Who: XCOR Aerospace Launching: 2014 Destination: Suborbital The Odds: [...]

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Why the next decade’s hot space race revolves around the moon
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Why the next decade’s hot space race revolves around the moon

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Why the next decade’s hot space race revolves around the moon

December 6th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: Bigelow, Blue Origin, China, International Space Station, ISS, Jade Rabbit, Launches, Moon, NASA, Robotics, Roscosmos, Sierra Nevada, Space X, Xcor|

If China’s just-launched Chang’e 3 lunar probe (quaintly known as the Jade Rabbit) drops its robotic rover down on the Moon’s surface in mid-December as scheduled, it will be the first soft landing on our nearest celestial neighbor in 37 years. It also kicks off a resurgence of interest in [...]

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