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VideoCommercial Cygnus space freighter leaves station after two months
Disconnected from the International Space Station berthing port and then cast free by the robotic arm, the commercial Cygnus cargo craft flew away Friday after successfully restarting U.S. resupply service to the outpost.
VideoVideo: Delta 4 launches before dawn from California
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launching on the NROL-45 satellite-deployment mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
VideoRecap story: Last GPS satellite of its generation arrives in space
The main engine rumbling to life. Ice shards breaking free. The rocket lumbering off the pad. The battle against gravity being won once again. That was the scene as the Atlas 5 took flight to cap a generation of Global Positioning System satellites.
VideoVideos: Atlas 5 caps a generation of GPS launches
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Global Positioning System 2F-12 satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, completing 27 years and 61 flights of the GPS 2 generation.
VideoUnited Launch Alliance’s high-tempo year begins with GPS launch Friday
Kicking off United Launch Alliance's ambitious 2016 with as many as 15 launches planned for the U.S. military, intelligence community, NASA and commercial clients, an Atlas 5 rocket will thunder to orbit Friday to deploy the last satellite in the current generation of GPS navigation spacecraft.
VideoOTD…Jan. 31 and Apollo 14
Today in 1971...The launch of Apollo 14 to Fra Mauro with Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell.
VideoOTD…Jan. 28 and STS-51L
Today in 1986...Space shuttle Challenger and her seven astronaut crew were lost during launch.
VideoOTD…Jan. 27 and Apollo 1
Today in 1967...The astronauts of Apollo 1 lost their lives in a launch pad fire.
VideoOTD…Jan. 24 and STS-51C
#OTD in 1985...Discovery launched on the first classified space shuttle mission for the Department of Defense. Watch the liftoff:
VideoOTD…Jan. 22 and STS-42
#OTD in 1992...Discovery launched with the first International Microgravity Laboratory.