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An Engineer Says He’s Overcome Earth’s Gravity

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Mysterious ‘Space Balls’ Washed Up on a Beach

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

Rockets Are Badly Polluting the Upper Atmosphere

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NASA Artemis Space Launch System

The Best Space Lego Sets to Celebrate Artemis II

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A Russian Plasma Engine May Reach Mars in a Month

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Scientists Designed a Warp Drive That Might Work

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Experts Say Time Travel Is Possible at Warp Speed

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This Starship Could Take Humanity to a New Home

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A Spacecraft Holding Human Remains Got Lost At Sea

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A New Type of Propulsion Could Change Space Travel

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A Fusion Rocket Could Cut Space Travel in Half

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Scientists Can Reach Alpha Centauri...in 40 Years

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Snorkeler Finds Huge Rocket Panel on Remote Island

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Starship Explosion Blew Open the Ionosphere

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This Laser Could Unlock Interstellar Travel

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The World’s Biggest Rocket Just Got Closer to Mars

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New Warp Drive Concept Is More Fact Than Fiction

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NASA's Ion Thruster Could Spawn a Space Revolution

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Scientists Get Serious in Search for Warp Drive

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A Chinese Rocket Took an Unknown Item to the Moon

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The Pentagon Really Wants a Nuclear Spacecraft

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Cylinder on Australian Beach is Part of a Rocket

the nasa sr 71a successfully completed its first cold flow flight as part of the nasarocketdynelockheed martin linear aerospike sr 71 experiment lasre at nasa's dryden flight research center, edwards, california on march 4, 1998during a cold flow flight, gaseous helium and liquid nitrogen are cycled through the linear aerospike engine to check the engine's plumbing system for leaks and to check the engine operating characterisitics cold flow tests must be accomplished successfully before firing the rocket engine experiment in flightthe sr 71 took off at 1016 am pst the aircraft flew for one hour and fifty seven minutes, reaching a maximum speed of mach 158 before landing at edwards at 1213 pm pst"i think all in all we had a good mission today," dryden lasre project manager dave lux saidflight crew member bob meyer agreed, saying the crew "thought it was a really good flight" dryden research pilot ed schneider piloted the sr 71 during the missionlockheed martin lasre project manager carl meade added, "we are extremely pleased with today's results this will help pave the way for the first in flight engine data collection flight of the lasre"

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After 70 Years, Will Aerospike Engines Fly?

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Is Fusion the Future of Space Exploration?

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Astronauts Might be Able to Hibernate in 10 Years

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SpaceX Blew Up Their Own Launch Pad

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Welp, SpaceX’s Starship Just Blew Up

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Bummer: SpaceX Canceled Today’s Starship Launch

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New Japanese Rocket Fails During Launch

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SpaceX's Starship Is Almost Ready to Launch

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China Built a Hypersonic Ski Jump

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How NASA Cleared Artemis for Launch Despite Damage

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The 10 Lessons Learned From Failed Rocket Launches

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Rocket Debris Likelier to Kill in These Regions

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Spaceflight Will Warm the Ozone Layer by 4 Degrees

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Here Comes the Pentagon’s Nuclear Thermal Rocket

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Elon Musk and Roscosmos Chief Tangle on Twitter

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Take a Virtual Ride Toward Space in This Slingshot

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Watch a Sikorsky S-92 Snatch a Rocket From the Sky

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Can a Retired Rocket Engine Take Us to Mars?

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Why SpaceX Named Its New Dragon Capsule ‘Freedom’

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Watch NASA Roll Out Its Massive Moon Rocket

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Polaris Program to Launch First Private Spacewalk