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VideoVideos: Delta 4-Heavy launch flashback
Get a preview of Thursday's United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket flight in these video highlights packages from previous missions by the big booster for NASA and the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
VideoRe-engined Antares rocket completes ground test firing
Orbital ATK's upgraded Antares rocket, featuring newly-built RD-181 main engines, completed a 30-second test firing on a launch pad on Virginia's Eastern Shore on Tuesday.
VideoPhotos and video: Payload mated to Delta 4-Heavy rocket for upcoming launch
Shielded from view within the protective rocket nose cone, a covert surveillance satellite has been mounted atop a Delta 4-Heavy rocket for launch June 4.
VideoNASA probe that will make round trip to asteroid and back sent to launch base
Equipped with a robot arm, sample collector and return capsule, NASA's asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REx probe emerged from its pristine factory and flew to the launch site in Florida on Friday.
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.
VideoPhotos: Progress supply launch viewed from space station
Astronauts living on the International Space Station captured amazing views of a Soyuz rocket streaking into orbit from Kazakhstan with nearly 3 tons of supplies destined for the massive research complex.
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.
VideoProgress cargo craft rolled out for launch to space station
The second of three robotic resupply ships going to the International Space Station in two weeks has arrived at its launch pad in Kazakhstan for liftoff Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket.
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.
VideoVideo: Soyuz crew blasts off en route to space station
A Soyuz rocket climbed away from a historic launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday with three new crew members heading for the International Space Station.