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VideoSoyuz primed to launch veteran space station crew
A Soyuz rocket is sitting on a historic launch pad in Kazakhstan after a railroad journey at sunrise Wednesday positioned the crew ferry craft for liftoff Friday with a three-man crew destined for the International Space Station, including two spaceflight veterans who will spend nearly one year in orbit.
VideoVideo: Delta 4 lifts off
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket was launched on-time today at 2:36 p.m. EDT carrying a new Global Positioning System spacecraft to advance the navigation network with every launch.
VideoOTD…March 24 and STS-45
Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis' STS-45 mission in March 1992.
VideoOTD…March 22 and STS-3 and STS-76
#OTD in 1982 the 3rd launch of the space shuttle and in 1996 the 3rd Mir docking missioN
VideoOn This Date…March 15 and STS-119
#OTD in 2009, shuttle Discovery delivers power payload to space station.
VideoRocket-mounted cameras show Atlas rising into the night
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that successfully hauled a NASA satellite quartet into a highly elliptical Earth orbit Thursday was fitted with three onboard video cameras that captured some of the major events of ascent.
VideoOn This Date…March 13 and STS-29
#OTD in 1989, Discovery launched a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
VideoRecap story: Atlas 5 rocket launches NASA satellite quartet
Four magnetic explosion probes in a towering stack atop an Atlas 5 rocket rode a fountain of flame off the launch pad and into Earth orbit Thursday night for a $1.1 billion NASA science investigation into a universal force of nature.
VideoPowerful solid rocket motor fired in Utah
A solid-fueled rocket booster fired for more than two minutes in Utah on Wednesday, spewing a torrent of glowing hot flame against a hillside in a key test for the Space Launch System, a behemoth rocket NASA is developing to send astronauts on long-distance voyages into space.
