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Launch of SpaceX cargo mission slips to Dec. 19
The launch of SpaceX's next resupply mission to the International Space Station has been rescheduled for no earlier than Dec. 19 to make sure the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship are ready for flight.
Orbital picks Atlas 5 to launch next space station cargo run
Orbital Sciences Corp. announced Tuesday it selected United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket to launch a Cygnus space station resupply mission in late 2015 while the company redesigns its Antares booster with a new engine following a catastrophic failure seconds after liftoff in October.
Photos: Payload stacked for Thursday’s Atlas 5
See images of a classified spy payload lifted on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Atlas 5 to sport new upper stage engine Thursday
The most powerful Atlas rocket to ever fly from the West Coast is poised for launch Thursday to deliver a secret payload into orbit while debuting a new upper stage engine.
Small satellites have another way to get into space
A spherical U.S. Navy spacecraft the size of a beach ball spring-ejected from a new satellite deployer outside the International Space Station last week, debuting a fresh way for low-budget space missions to reach orbit.
VideoThanksgiving in space
Six people living on the International Space Station shared an out-of-this-world Thanksgiving dinner in orbit.
Live coverage: Space station crew sheltering from possible ammonia leak
Two NASA astronauts and an Italian flight engineer are sheltering in the space station's Russian segment as mission control analyzes a possible leak of toxic ammonia coolant aboard the complex.
VideoVIDEO: Expedition 42 news conference on eve of launch
Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and their backups hold a news conference on the eve of launch.
International crew set for launch to space station Sunday
Soyuz TMA-15M commander Anton Shkaplerov, flanked on the left by flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti and on the right by NASA astronaut Terry Virts, are scheduled for liftoff from complex 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday.
VideoSoyuz ferry craft moved to launch pad
Riding a specialized railroad car before dawn Friday, a Soyuz rocket rolled out of a cavernous assembly building and arrived at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for liftoff Sunday with American, Russian and Italian crew members heading for the International Space Station.