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VideoFamilies, NASA honor fallen astronauts
On the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, crew families, friends and space workers gathered Thursday to remember the 17 men and women who lost their lives on the high frontier, 14 in two space shuttle disasters and three in an Apollo-era launch pad fire 49 years ago Wednesday.
VideoOTD…Jan. 28 and STS-51L
Today in 1986...Space shuttle Challenger and her seven astronaut crew were lost during launch.
VideoDragon crew capsule’s propulsive landing system tested
SpaceX released a video Thursday showing a propulsive hover test of a prototype of the company's Dragon crew capsule conducted two months ago, a milestone in the development of the spaceship's rocket packs that will eventually guide the craft to helicopter-like landings.
VideoWatch a replay of Soyuz crew’s blastoff from Kazakhstan
Three crewmen from Russia, the United States and Great Britain blasted off toward the International Space Station on Tuesday, rocketing into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in pursuit of the orbiting research lab.
VideoPhotos: Crew transport rolled out at Baikonur
Tugged along a historic route leading to the launch pad where Yuri Gagarin took off 1961 to become the first person in space, a Soyuz rocket rolled out of its assembly hangar in Kazakhstan and stood up on its launch mount Sunday.
VideoReadiness confirmed for Thursday’s Atlas 5 cargo launch to space station
Mission managers Tuesday granted approval to proceed with Wednesday's rollout of the Atlas 5 rocket and Thursday's launch to deliver the commercial Cygnus cargo ship into orbit to resupply the International Space Station.
VideoOTD…Oct. 23 and STS-120
#OTD in 2007...Discovery launched Harmony as the gateway to future international science laboratories
VideoOTD…Oct. 7 and STS-112
#OTD in 2002...Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station's truss backbone