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VideoOTD…June 27 and STS-4 and STS-71
#OTD in 1982...Columbia launches on the fourth space shuttle mission. #OTD in 1995...Atlantis launches on first shuttle-Mir docking flight
VideoOTD…June 25 and STS-50
#OTD in 1992...Columbia launches on the first Extended Duration Orbiter mission
VideoSpaceX aims for another rocket landing experiment Sunday
Keeping with its mantra of fly, fix and fly again, SpaceX says it has resolved a valve problem that kept one of its Falcon 9 boosters from successfully touching down on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean in April, ahead of another landing attempt after a launch from Cape Canaveral set for Sunday.
VideoPhotos: Vega launch lights up French Guiana
Monday night's blastoff of a Vega rocket from the northern shore of South America dispatched a 2,500-pound Earth imaging satellite for Europe and put on a light show across the tropical spaceport at the edge of the Amazon.
VideoOTD…June 21 and STS-57
#OTD in 1993...Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite
VideoOTD…June 20 and STS-78 and NROL-38
#OTD in 1996...Columbia launched on a life sciences and microgravity flight.
VideoOTD…June 18 and STS-7 and LRO
#OTD in 1983...Challenger launched with America's first woman astronaut. Watch the launch:
VideoOTD…June 17 and STS-51G
US-French-Saudi crew launched aboard Discovery with a multi-satellite payload
VideoJack King, ‘Voice of NASA,’ dies at 84
John W. "Jack" King, the calm, reassuring "Voice of NASA" who held the world riveted as he counted down the final seconds of the Apollo 11 launch to the moon, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 84.
VideoNASA confident in finding fix for test parachute failure
One day after a supersonic parachute crafted to land robots on Mars failed on a test flight high above Hawaii, NASA officials said Tuesday a jackpot of high-resolution video recordings and other data from the otherwise successful experiment should lead to design improvements.