A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket, the most powerful in the post-shuttle U.S. inventory, boosted a top-secret National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite into space early Friday.
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China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying two men and the first Chinese woman to fly in space, returned to Earth Friday after an ambitious 13-day test flight to a prototype space station module.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite blasted off Wednesday, successfully boosting its secret payload into orbit. Read More...

The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft executed an automated docking with the Tiangong 1 research module early Monday, completing China's first manned orbital linkup. Read More...

An unmanned Air Force spaceplane dropped out of orbit and glided to a computer-controlled California landing early Saturday to close out a classified 469-day military mission.
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A Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft carrying a space veteran and two rookies, including China's first female "taikonaut," rocketed into orbit Saturday on a mission to dock with a prototype space station module. Read More...

A small X-ray telescope was boosted into orbit by an air-launched Pegasus XL rocket Wednesday, the first step in an ambitious low-cost mission to study supermassive black holes and the creation of heavy elements. Read More...

NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover is in good shape and on target for a nail-biting seven-minute plunge to a bulls-eye landing on the red planet in early August, mission managers said Monday.
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A Chinese Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft was moved to its launching stand Saturday for work to ready the ship for launch later this month on a manned flight to dock with a prototype lab module. Read More...

The Air Force is preparing to bring its unmanned X-37B spaceplane back to Earth after 15 months of clandestine military operations. Landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., is expected sometime in the next two weeks. Read More...