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Virgin Galactic: First Space Launch in 2012

By Andrea Gini on September 17, 2011

Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic  founder and chairman, hopes to  perform the first space launch within the next 12 months. "The mother ship... Read more →

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UARS Reentry Expected by September 23

By Andrea Gini on September 17, 2011

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) during deployment from Space Shuttle Discovery in September 1991 (Credits: NASA Marshall Space Flight... Read more →

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Soyuz TMA-21 Landing: Pictures and Video

By Andrea Gini on September 17, 2011

NASA photographer Bill Ingalls took an extraordinary picture of Soyuz TMA-21 gliding to Earth in its parachute with an almost-full-moon in... Read more →

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Columbia Tank Found on Lakebed

By Andrea Gini on September 16, 2011

A tank from Shuttle Columbia (Source: NASA). An aluminum tank from Space Shuttle Columbia has been found in Lake Nacogdoches, Texas in August... Read more →

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Lessons Learned: Mir Collision

By Andrea Gini on September 16, 2011

The Spektr module of the Mir spacestation. Notice the broken solar panel (Source: NASA). On June 25, 1997, the Progress M-34 spacecraft crashed... Read more →

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Soyuz TMA-21 returns to Earth

By Andrea Gini on September 16, 2011

Soyuz TMA-21, carrying NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev & Andrey Borisenko, landed in the Kazakhstan... Read more →