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VideoVideo: X-37B payload mated to Atlas 5
Already encapsulated in the 18-foot-diameter nose cone, the Air Force's X-37B spaceplane is hoisted atop the Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral's Vertical Integration Facility.
VideoOTD…May 11 and STS-125
#OTD...In 2009, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission launched
VideoOTD…May 7 and STS-49
#OTD...The maiden launch of shuttle Endeavour in 1992 to rescue the Intelsat 603 satellite
VideoOTD…May 4 and STS-30
#OTD...Launch of Atlantis in 1989 to send the Magellan space probe to Venus
VideoNext round of U.S. optical spy satellites to start launching in 2018
The covert follow-on satellite program that will serve as a replacement to the nation's surveillance "eyes" from space begins launching in 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
VideoOTD…April 28 and STS-39
OTD...Launch of Discovery in 1991 on a Defense Department research flight
VideoVideo: Russian cargo ship spinning
A video camera aboard Russian Progress cargo ship reveals craft is spinning dramatically in orbit as it passes in range of ground station communications.
VideoOTD…April 26 and STS-55
#OTD...Launch of Columbia in 1993 on the second flight of the German Spacelab
VideoOTD…April 25 and the Hubble deploy
25 years ago this afternoon, Hubble was deployed from shuttle Discovery