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View fullsize May 27 🚀 The official launch date for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. The first crewed SpaceFlight to launch from American soil since the Space Shuttle in 2011. #Repost 📷: @nasa On May 27 we launch into a new era of human spaceflight. We launch for th
View fullsize Did you hear? The NASA worm 🐛 is making a comeback! 📷: @NASA #spacex #nasa #commercialcrew
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View fullsize Apollo 11 Mission Transcript: 00:29:51 CMP — Hey, Buzz? 00:29:52 LMP — Yes. 00:29:53 CMP — How would you like the camera? 00:29:55 LMP — Okay. #Apollo11 #Apollo11at50
View fullsize LIFTOFF of Apollo 11 and the first humans to walk on the moon! Fifty years ago today. #Apollo11 #Apolloat50
View fullsize [UPDATE] It’s launching sometime next week. SpaceX plans to launch its first 60 #Starlink satellites tonight - the beginning of the company’s world-wide space-based Internet. Launch window opens at 10:30pmEDT. Photo credit: @SpaceX 🚀 🛰
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View fullsize Yesterday afternoon’s NG-11 Antares launch saw between 4,000-5,000 spectators flock to NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Clear skies set the stage for the Island’s first daytime launch in several years. Read more —> Link in bio. #na
View fullsize Go Antares! Go Cygnus! Go science! Congratulations to @NASA and @NorthropGrumman on the successful launch of #NG11 and the Cygnus spacecraft, en route to the @ISS. #space #rocketlaunch #nasa #explore
View fullsize Watch today’s Antares launch live at theOrbital.space/launches/ng-11 Stream begins at 4:15pm EDT, launch targeting 4:46pm. #NG11
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View fullsize Utilizing the #Antares rocket’s new late load capabilities, @NorthropGrumman and @NASA lowered #Cygnus tonight to stow critical experiments ahead of tomorrow’s 4:46pm EDT launch to the @ISS.
View fullsize HEADS UP EAST COAST! 24 hours until the launch of @NorthropGrumman’s #Antares rocket, carrying the NG-11 #Cygnus space craft to the @ISS with over 7,500 pounds of science, supplies, and cargo. #NG11
View fullsize We’ll be taking you inside @NorthropGrumman’s Horizontal Integration Facility later this morning! Don’t miss the launch of NG-11’s #Cygnus space craft to the @ISS tomorrow at 4:46pm EDT!
View fullsize @NASAwallops is predicting 85% favorable weather conditions for the April 17th launch of @NorthropGrumman’s Antares Rocket and Cygnus cargo craft to the @ISS. 🚀 The NG-11 mission will ferry 7,500 pounds of science, supplies, and other cargo fo
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Northrop Grumman launches Cygnus spacecraft to Space Station
Intl. Space Station, NASA, Science
Northrop Grumman launches Cygnus spacecraft to Space Station
Intl. Space Station, NASA, Science

Private aerospace and defense company Northrup Grumman’s Antares rocket launched its NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft Wednesday evening, April 17, and is on course to rendezvous with the International Space Station.

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Can NASA land astronauts on the Moon by 2024?
Can NASA land astronauts on the Moon by 2024?

Vice President Mike Pence announced a new goal for NASA: Put American astronauts back on the surface of the Moon by 2024. Pence went on during his address to emphasis that NASA’s aim to land humans on the Moon by 2028 was “just not good enough.” This comes less than two weeks after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told members at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket…

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