Orion Spacecraft accomplishes first spaceflight testNASA has finally accomplished its first spaceflight with the new Orion spacecraft, uncrewed, on Friday morning. The spacecraft has now traveled farther from the Earth then any other spacecraft designed to carry a crew has traveled in over four decades.
The Orion crew module was launched off from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Statio...
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Richard Branson is bringing commercial space travel closer to you with his company Virgin Galactic, following a third successful test flight of their revolutionary SpaceShipTwo space-shuttle.
SpaceShipTwo reached record heights of 71,000 feet, flying over the Mojave Desert in California at supersonic speed before safely re-entering after ten minutes of ...
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