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US military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission
The Space Force's reusable, robotic craft is carrying classified experiments. There's no one on board.
Boeing capsule returns to Earth at Army’s White Sands Missile Range after aborted space mission
Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that could hold up the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year.
The US Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane lands after spending two years in space
The mysterious spaceplane beat its previous record for days on orbit.
By Valerie Insinna
Let’s get back to Venus!
A planetary geologist makes his pitch to fling a satellite back to a hellish planet, where pressure on the surface is 92 times greater than on Earth and temperatures sit at a staggering 863°F (462°C), hot enough to melt lead.
By Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
Air Force X-37B space plane breaks record for consecutive days in orbit
The spacecraft, which the Air Force said is modeled after NASA’s X-37 program, passed 717 days, 20 hours and 42 minutes in space the morning of Aug. 26 — breaking the last record set by the X-37B’s previous mission.
By Diana Stancy
Apollo 11 astronaut returns to launch pad 50 years later
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another world
Hundreds of millions tuned in to radios or watched the grainy black-and-white images on TV as Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, in one of humanity's most glorious technological achievements.
These Moon-landing innovations changed life on Earth
We can only wonder what innovations from the effort to send people to other planets will affect earthlings 50 years after the first Marswalk.
By Jean Creighton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
America’s 1st female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb, dies
America’s first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its heights, has died.
Blink-182′s Tom DeLonge and former Pentagon officials get History Channel show to prove aliens exist
The series is set to air sometime in May.
By Jon Simkins