Watch a replay of the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on January 12, 2018, hauling into orbit a new eye in the sky for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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Launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe rescheduled for Aug. 6
The launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, on the verge of kicking off a seven-year mission culminating in passages through the sun’s atmosphere, has been delayed to Aug. 6 to resolve a technical snag encountered during encapsulation of the spacecraft inside the nose shroud of its United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket.
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NASA astronaut joins Russian Soyuz crew for April flight to space station
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, veteran of a 168-day stay in space in 2017-18, will join two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz spacecraft April 9 for a flight back to the International Space Station in a deal brokered through Houston-based Axiom Space, NASA and the Russian space agency announced Tuesday.
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