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VideoHeavy cargo mounted atop Atlas 5 rocket for upcoming launch
Hoisting a 15,000-pound satellite atop an Atlas 5 rocket Wednesday, United Launch Alliance finished assembling its next space-bound booster for liftoff Aug. 31 in support of the U.S. Navy.
VideoH-2B rocket launch sends supply shipment to space station
A cache of critical cargo stowed inside a solar-powered Japanese resupply freighter is speeding toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station after a successful launch Wednesday.
VideoOTD…Aug. 18 and STS-68 abort
OTD in 1994...Endeavour experienced an on-pad abort due to a main engine problem during startup
VideoRocket engine fires up in latest test for behemoth booster
A hydrogen-fueled rocket engine ignited with a bone-rattling sonic wave Thursday at NASA's test facility in Southern Mississippi, throttling up to more than a half-million pounds of thrust to verify upgrades to the space shuttle's main engines can power a humongous new launcher off the planet.
VideoAstronauts munch on space-grown lettuce
Amid a Russian spacewalk to carry out routine maintenance and inspections outside the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts and a Japanese crewmate staged a culinary first in orbit -- harvesting and eating a few leaves of leafy, space-grown red romaine lettuce.
VideoOTD…Aug. 10 and STS-105
#OTD in 2001...Discovery launched on an International Space Station crew exchange mission
VideoOTD…Aug. 8 and STS-28 and STS-118
#OTD in 1989...Columbia launched with a classified communications satellite for the Defense Department
VideoOTD…Aug. 7 and STS-85
#OTD in 1997...Discovery launched to deploy and later retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite
VideoWatch the moon transit the Earth
Spectacular views from a NOAA space weather observatory show the sunlit far side of the moon crossing the face of the Earth from a distant vantage point a million miles away.
VideoOTD…Aug. 2 and STS-43
#OTD in 1991...Atlantis launched another of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites