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Tag: Launch

  • NASA rover ‘Perseverance’ sets off in search of life on Mars

    NASA rover ‘Perseverance’ sets off in search of life on Mars

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    Launched on 30 July, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is sending the Mars rover ‘Perseverance’ to search for traces of ancient life and study samples of rock and soil in a crater that once held a lake nine times the size of Loch Ness. It was launched at 07:50 local time from Cape Canaveral Air Force…

  • SpaceX’s first Commercial Spaceflight

    SpaceX’s first Commercial Spaceflight

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    On Saturday the 30th of May, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launched at 3.22p.m. EDT from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral. The mission took US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station (ISS). This mission, part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, marks the return of human spaceflight capabilities to the…