In the wake of new contracts for commercial space taxis, NASA Friday announced a new competition for a second round of contracts to build and launch unpiloted spacecraft to deliver cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.
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A Soyuz ferry craft carrying a crew of three docked with the International Space Station late Thursday. While one of the Soyuz capsule's two solar arrays did not deploy after launch, the crew had no problems completing a four-orbit rendezvous. Read More...

Two days after launch from Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with 2.5 tons of equipment and supplies pulled up to the International Space Station early Tuesday and was captured by the lab's robot arm to complete a smooth rendezvous.
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft braked into orbit around Mars Sunday, a major milestone for a $671 million mission find out how much of the martian atmosphere leaked away in the distant past.
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Running a day late because of stormy weather, a SpaceX cargo ship packed with more than 5,100 pounds of equipment and supplies blasted off early Sunday on a two-day flight to the International Space Station.
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Thick clouds and rain over central Florida early Saturday forced SpaceX to order a 24-hour delay for launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon supply ship bound for the International Space Station.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands poised to launch a Dragon cargo ship on a two-day flight to the International Space Station. Read More...

NASA cost estimates for operating the International Space Station through 2024 are "overly optimistic," the agency's inspector general reported Thursday, adding that the price of new U.S.-built space taxis likely will be higher than currently projected.
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After waiting out bad weather, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off Tuesday and boosted a classified satellite into space, putting on a brief but spectacular show as it streak away through low clouds. Read More...

Aerospace giant Boeing and newcomer SpaceX will share $6.8 billion in NASA contracts to build commercial space taxis to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Read More...

Responding to criticism from a review panel that questioned the science agenda of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, senior managers Thursday defended the $2.5 billion mission, saying the spacecraft had more than achieved its primary science goals. Read More...

Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut strapped into a Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Wednesday, settling to a jarring rocket-assisted landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 169-day mission.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered to life and vaulted into space early Sunday, boosting a commercial communications satellite into orbit for the Hong Kong-based Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Read More...