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Boeing borrows from inventory to speed docking adapter delivery
Spare parts warehoused in the the United States and Russia will help Boeing finish assembly of a third space station docking port to receive arriving astronauts aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules, replacing a unit lost in a Falcon 9 launch failure last year.
Commercial Falcon 9 rocket launch scheduled for next week
SpaceX's next Falcon 9 rocket launch is set for no earlier than May 5, sources said Friday, with a Japanese television broadcasting satellite heading to orbit from Cape Canaveral.
Falcon 9 rocket wins landmark U.S. Air Force launch contract
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will launch a third-generation GPS navigation satellite for the U.S. military in 2018, the Air Force said Wednesday, breaking a monopoly held by United Launch Alliance since its formation nearly a decade ago.
Q&A with Mark Mulqueen, Boeing’s space station program manager
The International Space Station's oldest sections launched nearly 17 years ago, and with the huge orbiting research complex now well into its operational life as a microgravity science lab, prime contractor Boeing's job is keeping the outpost going, according to Mark Mulqueen, who manages the aerospace company's space station program.
Expandable room installed on space station
The International Space Station's robotic arm, under the control of engineers on Earth, extracted an experimental inflatable habitat from the trunk of SpaceX's Dragon supply ship Saturday and attached it to the orbiting complex.
Flown Falcon 9 booster hoisted off landing platform
SpaceX rocket technicians offloaded the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket from its landing platform Tuesday, beginning a pioneering test campaign to verify its readiness for another launch later this year.
New views of Falcon 9 landing from on-board SpaceX’s drone ship
SpaceX has released new photos of last week's thrilling rocket landing aboard a floating drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, showing the 15-story Falcon 9 first stage slowing to a hover just as it touched down on the platform.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket returns to port
Riding into port aboard a floating platform before dawn, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket booster arrived back at Cape Canaveral early Tuesday after sticking a historic landing at sea last week, kicking off a series of inspections and tests before engineers ready it for launch again.
VideoDragon arrives at space station with inflatable habitat in tow
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship executed a laser-guided rendezvous with the International Space Station early Sunday, delivering an experimental expandable enclosure for attachment to the complex later this month for tests to verify the inflatable design's suitability for future space habitats.
Photos: Dragon completes rendezvous with the station
The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with supplies, crew provisions, new science experiments and an experimental expandable module for the International Space Station arrived Sunday morning for rendezvous, capture and berthing.