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VideoFirst static fire completed on upgraded Falcon 9
SpaceX's upgraded Falcon 9 booster powered up to full throttle in a brief ignition at the company's Central Texas test site this week as engineers prepare for the rocket's return to flight as soon as mid-November with a European communications satellite.
VideoOTD…Sept. 25 and STS-86
#OTD in 1997...Atlantis launched on the seventh joint docking mission with Russia's space station Mir
VideoModified missile launches three Russian satellites
Three Russian military satellites arrived in orbit Wednesday after taking off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome aboard a Rockot launch vehicle, a decommissioned ballistic missile modified for space applications.
VideoPhotos: Soyuz blasts off from the jungle
A late-night liftoff Thursday lit up the forested shoreline of South America as a Russian-made Soyuz rocket streaked into orbit with two new satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system. Relive the launch with a video replay and photos of the fiery departure.
VideoOTD…Sept. 12 and STS-48, 47 and 51
#OTD in 1991, 1992 and 1993...flights by Discovery and Endeavour
VideoOTD…Sept. 9 and STS-64 and STS-115
#OTD in 1994...Discovery launched to develop new techniques for monitoring Earth's environment from space...and in 2006...Construction of the space station resumed as Atlantis delivered a power-generating truss
VideoStation crew recommends “The Martian” in plug from space
Space station astronaut Kjell Lindgren said Tuesday he and commander Scott Kelly are big fans of Andy Weir's book "The Martian," adding they're hopeful NASA will beam up a copy of the Ridley Scott movie as soon as it's released.
VideoOTD…Sept. 8 and STS-106
#OTD in 2000...Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit
VideoOTD…Sept. 7 and STS-69
#OTD in 1995...Endeavour launched to deploy and retrieve solar satellite and Wake Shield Facility