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  Boeing's Seven-seater Spacecraft on Display

  Posted by Guy Norris 4:34 AM on Apr 17, 2012

  Making an impact with the largest exhibit at this year’s National Space Symposium here in Colorado Springs, is a mock-up of Boeing’s CST-100 spaceship. The 14.8 ft-wide... Read More >>

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  The Billionaires' Club

  Posted by Frank Morring, Jr. 8:01 AM on Jan 02, 2012

  Before this new year is out, it's likely that some of the private spaceships that have been on the drawing board (or more likely in workstation CAD files) for so long will finally ... Read More >>

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  Boeing's Satellite Half-Century

  Posted by Guy Norris 4:54 AM on Aug 25, 2011

  As part of celebrations marking 50 years of continuous satellite development at its El Segundo site in California, Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems showed members of the med... Read More >>

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  Capsule-based spacecraft for human spaceflight making comeback

  Posted by Jason Rhian 7:26 AM on Jul 14, 2011

  Photo Credit: Jason RhianCAPE CANAVERAL Fla. -- Recent visitors to NASA's Kennedy Space Center press site and the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space and Missile Hist... Read More >>

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  NASA Pleased with Early CCDev 2 Progress

  Posted by Mark Carreau 4:28 PM on Jul 04, 2011

  NASA is striving to document Commercial Crew Development 2 advances among its latest grant recipients with a new bi-monthly, electronic online newsletter, NASA's Return on Investme... Read More >>

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  Boeing's CST-100 Emerges from Delta System Definition Review

  Posted by Mark Carreau 3:45 PM on Jun 14, 2011

  Boeing's seven-person CST-100 nears docking with International Space Station's U. S. segment. Image credit/BoeingBoeing expects to complete a system Preliminary Design Review of th... Read More >>

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  VIDEO: Rocketdyne's Abort Motor for Boeing's Capsule

  Posted by Graham Warwick 9:46 PM on Mar 15, 2011

  As it says on the sleeve of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album - "Play it loud"! This video shows recent hot-fire tests of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Bantam demonstration eng... Read More >>

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  Discovery's Final Destination?

  Posted by Guy Norris 4:30 AM on Mar 09, 2011

  NASA’s workhorse space shuttle Discovery is set to land in a few hours from now, marking the end of a career that covered 365 days in space and 148 million miles on the clock... Read More >>

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  OTV-2 launch attempt scrubbed

  Posted by Guy Norris 10:21 PM on Mar 04, 2011

  Bad weather has forced Cape Canaveral range officials to call off today’s attempted launch of the U.S. Air Force’s second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. Easterly winds hav... Read More >>

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  OTV-2 launch on hold

  Posted by Guy Norris 8:43 PM on Mar 04, 2011

  The range is now “Red” due to ground wind conditions – gusting to more than 30 kts – while encroaching cumulus clouds are also expected to drift over the pa... Read More >>

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