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Perfect. That's pretty much the description of the return trip that the space shuttle Discovery and its crew enjoyed as they landed without incidence at Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday at 11:15 EDT.
Read MoreAstrium and Paradigm and Thales Alenia Space complete their satellite launch for Skynet-5 and Turksat-3A.
Read More>Hopefully the return of the space shuttle Discovery crew will go smoothly when they land on Saturday, June 14 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:15 a.m. EDT.
Read MoreAt 7:42 a.m. EDT, Discovery is scheduled to undock from the ISS to initiate the return home of the STS-124 crew.
Read MoreAfter a delay, the lift-off of an Ariane 5 launch vehicle carrying the Skynet-5C and Turksat-3A is now scheduled for Thursday, June 12th.
Read MoreChinaSat-9 has been launched into orbit — otherwise known as ZhongXing-9 (ZX-9), the satellite was carried aloft by a CZ-3B Chang Zeng-3B (CZ3B-10 launch vehicle from the LC2 launch complex at the XiChang Launch Center.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and NASA's Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Facility at Fairmont, West Virginia, working through the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) of Greenbelt, Maryland, have announced the signing of a Space Act Agreement effort to advance the state of the art in mission as well as safety-critical software that will be used for sending SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
Read MoreThe Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] provided more than 1,600 of the components in the payload that Space Shuttle Discovery is delivering to the International Space Station (ISS).
Read MoreSpace Shuttle Discovery arrived at the International Space Station at 2:03 p.m. EDT Monday, delivering the second component of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory and a new Expedition 17 crew member.
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