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Boeing Attempts To Launch Astronauts Aboard Starliner Space Capsule

Boeing's Starliner capsule launch attempts highlight challenges and advancements in space exploration, showcasing collaborations between NASA and private c...

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'It's so complicated:' Boeing Starliner teams diagnosing helium leak ahead of June 1 astronaut launch

NASA and Boeing are still working through "complicated" issues arising from a small Starliner spacecraft helium leak. Launch is June 1, but that's pending a flight readiness review.

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Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut launch delayed again, this time with no new flight date

The 1st astronaut mission aboard Boeing's Starliner will not lift off May 25 as planned. NASA has not yet revealed the cause, but a helium leak has been ongoing in the spacecraft.

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Boeing Starliner's historic 1st astronaut launch delayed by Atlas V rocket issue

An issue with ULA's Atlas V rocket scrubbed the historic 1st crewed launch attempt of Boeing's Starliner capsule on May 6. May 10 is the earliest possible launch date now.

Space

Starliner's Mission Control team 'very excited' for capsule's 1st-ever astronaut launch (exclusive)

NASA and Boeing are working together to send the first astronauts to space on Starliner on May 6. Among the Mission Control support team is Kennedy Space Center's chief engineer.

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Boeing's Starliner launch will be the 1st astronaut flight on an Atlas V rocket. How did NASA and ULA get it ready for crews? (exclusive)

NASA astronauts will ride a United Launch Alliance Atlas V for the 1st time on May 6. Getting the long-running rocket ready for humans took thousands of checks.

Space

Launch for Boeing Starliner's first crewed ride into space has been scrubbed

Boeing's Starliner program has been plagued with delays and design problems for several years.

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Boeing's Starliner is a 'big piece of America's overall strategy for access to low Earth orbit,' astronaut says

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Josh Kutryk says Boeing Starliner is "important strategically" for America's space program.

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Boeing Starliner rolls out to launch pad for 1st astronaut flight on May 6 (photos)

Starliner is at last at its Florida launch pad for its historic 1st mission with astronauts. The Boeing spacecraft made a brief journey there May 4 to coincide with Star Wars Day.

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What time is Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut launch for NASA on June 5?

Boeing is ready to launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA on June 5. Here's what to know on when it will launch.

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Watch ULA assemble Atlas V rocket ahead of Boeing Starliner astronaut test flight (video)

United Launch Alliance's new video highlight's how the Atlas V launch vehicle for Boeing's Starliner was stacked and mated to the spacecraft.

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'Rocket cam' takes you aboard final launch of ULA's Delta IV Heavy (video)

After 64 years, the United Launch Alliance launched the final flight of its Delta IV Heavy rocket on April 9th, and stunning rocket cam footage captured the fiery finale.

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ULA chronicles the rise of Vulcan rocket in new employee-drawn comic book

Vulcan, United Launch Alliance's new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of being exposed to gamma rays or the bite of a radioactive spider, but it does have an origin story worthy of a comic book.

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'Heavy' history: ULA launches final Delta rocket after 64 years (video, photos)

The liftoff of the last-ever Delta rocket today (April 9) brought with it a change in the way the U.S. sends satellites, interplanetary probes and spacecraft into Earth orbit.

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Final launch of Delta IV Heavy rocket scrubbed late in countdown

ULA scrubbed the last planned liftoff of its Delta Heavy IV rocket on March 28 late in the countdown clock. The mission does not yet have a new launch date.

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Watch United Launch Alliance launch its final Delta Heavy IV rocket today in this free livestream

ULA plans to launch its final Delta IV Heavy rocket on April 9 at 12:53 p.m. EDT (1653 GMT). Here's how to watch live.

Space

Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs and technologies

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) wants to declassify more space programs in order to boost the nation's military edge in space.

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Peregrine moon lander heads back toward Earth and should burn up in the atmosphere

The mission was to be the first time an American company sent a spacecraft to the moon — and the first time the U.S. returned to the lunar surface in more than 50 years.

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The age of the private moon mission has begun

Astrobotic's Peregrine Lander has set the stage for a new era of commercial missions to the moon in the coming years.

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Peregrine 1 has ‘no chance’ of landing on moon due to fuel leak

Astrobotic company says goal is now to get US spacecraft as far as possible before it loses power

LiveScience

Human remains blasted into space on Vulcan rocket will 'desecrate' the moon, Navajo Nation says

Astrobotic Technology's Peregrine moon lander has successfully launched into space on a brand-new rocket and will attempt to touch down on the lunar surface in February. But the lander's payload includes human remains, which leaders of the Navajo Nation claim is "tantamount to desecration."

Al Jazeera

Private US lunar lander suffers ‘critical loss’ of fuel

Fate of mission in the balance as private companies seek to put first US spacecraft on the moon in over half a century.

Evening Standard

What is United Launch Alliance? Vulcan rocket launched to Moon from Nasa's base Cape Canaveral

The mission, called Cert-1, also has on board the cremated remains of several people associated with the original Star Trek series — including creator Gene Roddenberry

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ULA's 1st Vulcan Centaur rocket launch looks spectacular in these photos and videos

Relive ULA's Vulcan Centaur debut with these awesome photos. The mission sent the private Peregrine moon lander toward Earth's nearest neighbor.

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First Thing: Blinken warns Palestinians ‘must not be pressed to leave Gaza’

US secretary of state speaking in Qatar on latest leg of Middle East tour also warned that Israel-Gaza war could ‘metastasise’. Plus, Oppenheimer and Succession dominate Golden Globes

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