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VideoNASA probe that will make round trip to asteroid and back sent to launch base
Equipped with a robot arm, sample collector and return capsule, NASA's asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REx probe emerged from its pristine factory and flew to the launch site in Florida on Friday.
VideoOTD…May 18 and launch of Apollo 10
As a dress rehearsal mission for the moon landing, Apollo 10 launched today in 1969 with Cernan, Young and Stafford
VideoOTD…May 15 and Faith 7
The final manned Mercury mission was launched atop an Atlas rocket on this day in 1963 with Gordon Cooper aboard Faith 7 for a 34-hour, 22-orbit flight.
VideoOTD…May 14 and Skylab
NASA's first space station -- the Skylab orbital workshop -- was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.
Video55 years ago today: America entered human spaceflight arena
The U.S. launched its first man into space on this date, May 5, 1961, as Alan Shepard rode the Freedom 7 capsule on a 15-minute suborbital flight to 116.5 miles in altitude and 303 miles downrange to splashdown.
VideoOn this date…April 16 and Apollo 16
Apollo 16 launched to the Descartes Highlands of the moon on this day in 1972 with John Young, Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly.
VideoApril 14, 1981: Landing of Columbia on STS-1
VIDEO: The winged spaceship Columbia returned to Earth with a pinpoint landing at Edwards Air Force Base on this day 35 years ago, concluding the maiden flight of the space shuttle.
VideoFinal space shuttle fuel tank in existence heads to California museum
On the 35th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch, the last remaining external fuel tank set sail today from its factory in New Orleans to Los Angeles and a remarkable museum attraction in the making.
VideoApril 12, 1981: 35 years since the maiden space shuttle launch
America's first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.
VideoVideos: Previewing SpaceX’s eighth International Space Station resupply launch
Watch the pre-launch news conference on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flight of the Dragon cargo craft to the International Space Station.