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  NASA orders a second SpaceX crew mission to the ISS

  By Sean O'Kane on July 29, 2016 05:33 pm + 5 comments

  NASA has ordered a second mission from SpaceX to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Continue reading…

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  Watch SpaceX fire up the Falcon 9 rocket that landed in May

  By Sean O'Kane on July 29, 2016 04:33 pm + 8 comments

  SpaceX has landed five Falcon 9 rockets since the company started trying in 2015, but yesterday it Continue reading…

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  Watch an Atlas V rocket launch a secret spy satellite into space

  By Loren Grush on July 28, 2016 07:30 am

  This morning, an Atlas V rocket will blast off into space from Cape Canaveral, taking a classified Continue reading…

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  SpaceX's Red Dragon mission will cost around $320 million, NASA hints

  By Loren Grush on July 27, 2016 02:19 pm

  SpaceX’s upcoming Red Dragon mission — the company’s plan to send one of its Dragon capsules to Mars Continue reading…

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  The atmosphere above Jupiter's Great Red Spot is hotter than the rest of the planet

  By Loren Grush on July 27, 2016 01:00 pm

  The upper atmosphere above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — the huge storm that has been raging for Continue reading…

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  Let's all say goodbye to the Philae comet lander, which we'll never hear from again

  By Loren Grush on July 26, 2016 12:30 pm

  There’s still some time left before Europe’s Rosetta mission comes to an end in September, but it’s Continue reading…

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  Something is wiping away all of the craters on dwarf planet Ceres

  By Loren Grush on July 26, 2016 11:00 am

  Ever since NASA’s Dawn spacecraft started snapping pictures of the dwarf planet Ceres in the Continue reading…

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  This short documentary shows how astronomers hope to find the next habitable planets

  By Andrew Liptak on July 24, 2016 04:22 pm + 4 comments

  Just a couple of decades ago, the very idea that there were other planets orbiting stars throughout Continue reading…

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  Groot and Rocket Raccoon are the stars of this year’s official space station lab patch

  By Loren Grush on July 22, 2016 08:30 pm

  Perhaps the best perk of working on a NASA mission is getting the official stitched mission patch. Continue reading…

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  SpaceX recently landed another rocket — here's what it was like to see it

  By Loren Grush on July 22, 2016 09:31 am

  When SpaceX successfully pulled off its first Falcon 9 rocket landing in December, I knew it was Continue reading…