Pancaked SpaceX Falcon Pulls into Port After Trio of Spectacular Landings; Photos/Videos

By ken-kremer - June 21, 2016 11:13 PM UTC | Space Exploration
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — The pancaked leftovers of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage from last week's successful commercial launch but hard landing at sea, pulled silently and without fanfare into its home port over the weekend - thereby ending a string of three straight spectacular and upright soft ocean landings over the past two months.
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NASA Brings Back the X-Plane, and This One's Electric

By Nancy Atkinson - June 18, 2016 10:30 AM UTC | Space Exploration
While NASA has had a long and storied history of building and testing experimental aircraft – called X-planes -- it has been almost a decade the space agency has developed any new aircraft. But an initiative announced earlier this year as part of the new budget has NASA back designing, building and flying a new series of X-planes, with the goal of creating more "green" aviation technologies that can then be utilized by the aeronautics industry.
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SpaceX Set to Launch Stacked Pair of Electric Propulsion Comsats on June 15 - Watch Live

By ken-kremer - June 14, 2016 04:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — Less than three weeks after their last launch and landing attempt involving a Thai payload, SpaceX is set to continue the firms rapid fire pace of satellite deliveries to orbit with a new mission involving a stacked pair of all-electric propulsion commercial comsats that are due to liftoff tomorrow, Wednesday morning.
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