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VideoUnited Launch Alliance narrowing lists of suspects in rocket anomaly
The detective work into the Atlas 5 rocket's first stage performance trouble during the Cygnus cargo ship launch a week ago has implicated the fuel system as the likely culprit for using up the liquid oxygen supply too quickly.
VideoPreview: Cygnus to take flight Tuesday aboard Atlas 5 rocket
A hundred days after the last U.S. commercial resupply of the International Space Station by a Cygnus cargo ship launched atop an Atlas 5 rocket, the booster and freighter duo will do it again Tuesday.
VideoPhotos: Cygnus encapsulated for journey into space atop Atlas 5
United Launch Alliance workers encapsulated the freighter on Wednesday with the 14-foot-diameter, 45-foot-long extra extended payload fairing (XEPF) at Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility.
VideoNew GPS satellite begins transmitting to users around the globe
Air Force ground controllers have activated service aboard the newest Global Positioning System satellite, achieving that milestone for the final spacecraft in a dozen built in a manufacturing batch to update the constellation.
VideoOTD…March 9 and STS-133 landing
Today in 2011, shuttle Discovery made a graceful landing at Kennedy Space Center, returning from her final voyage after a remarkable three-decade life of service.
VideoOTD…March 6 and Kepler
NASA's Kepler planet-finder began its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy today in 2009, successfully launching aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
VideoOTD…March 3 and Apollo 9
Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.
VideoVideo: Scott Kelly’s in-flight news conference before landing
As his year-long mission aboard the International Space Station draws to a close, Expedition 46 commander Scott Kelly of NASA gives a final in-flight news conference with U.S. media on Feb. 25.
VideoVideo: Next International Space Station crew in Star City
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skriprochka and Alexey Ovchinin finish their training in Star City in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station on March 18.
VideoOTD…Feb. 22 and STS-75
Today in 1996...The launch of Columbia and the ill-fated Tethered Satellite System. Watch the liftoff: