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Station crew completes maintenance spacewalk
Working outside the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European Space Agency crewmate Alexander Gerst successfully moved a failed ammonia pump module to an external stowage platform, completing a task originally planned for a repair spacewalk last December.
Orion’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket moved to launch pad
The booster rocket that will launch NASA's next-generation Orion space capsule on a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise in December has been rolled to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
Mysterious satellite launched from Florida by Atlas 5 rocket
Rocketing through gloomy skies with a payload clouded in a veil of secrecy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday to deploy a satellite thousands of miles above Earth.
Space surveillance craft launched by Delta 4 rocket
A pair of covertly developed inspector satellites to monitor collision threats and nefarious activities in geosynchronous orbit for U.S. Strategic Command blasted off aboard a Delta 4 rocket.
VideoWaterside view of Delta 4 GPS 2F-6 Launch
Spectacular video of the twilight launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying the GPS 2F-6 navigation satellite on May 16, 2014.