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Launch of 14th SpaceX Falcon 9 with CRS-5, First Barge Landing for 1st Stage – Video

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Launch of 14th SpaceX Falcon 9 with CRS-5, First Barge Landing for 1st Stage
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched on it #39;s 14th mission carrying the Dragon CRS-5 Spacecraft full of cargo for NASA and the International Space Station. Liftoff occurred at...

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Blast-Off! SpaceX CRS-5 Mission Launches To Space Station | Video – Video

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The SpaceX cargo ship launched to the International Space Station on Jan. 10th, 2014. SpaceX will attempt to land the rocket #39;s first stage (INFOGRAPHIC here: http://goo.gl/O3Y5Vi) on a platform...

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Reusable Falcon 9 rocket blasts off for International Space Station – Video

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An unmanned Falcon 9 rocket blasts off carrying a cargo capsule for the International Space Station, then turned around to attempt an unprecedented landing on earth A SpaceX rocket has blasted...

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HWMM: Space Station 76 – Full Interview (Minus Trailer) with Writer / Director & Producer – Video

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HWMM: Space Station 76 - Full Interview (Minus Trailer) with Writer / Director Producer
Writer/Director Jack Plotnick and Producer Rachel Ward discuss his latest comedy, SPACE STATION 76, starring Liv Tyler, Matt Bomer, Jerry O #39;Connell, Marisa Coughlan and Patrick Wilson. The...

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'Close but no cigar': SpaceX reland fails

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An unmanned Space Exploration Technologies mission blasted off on Saturday carrying cargo for the International Space Station, but efforts to reland the rocket on a sea platform failed, the firm said.

"Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time," Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX, as the company is called, said on Twitter.

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"Bodes well for the future," he added.

The Dragon cargo capsule itself was successfully launched into space and is expected to dock with the space station on Monday.

Seeking to cut the cost of space launches, SpaceX hoped to bring the rocket back to Earth, aiming to land it on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean some 200 miles (322 km) off Jacksonville, Fla., north of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch site.

A ship stationed near the platform tried to capture the touchdown on video, but it was too dark and foggy, Musk said.

Engineers will look to work out what went wrong by studying data relayed during the descent, as well as pieces of the rocket itself, he added.

"Ship itself is fine. Some of the support equipment on the deck will need to be replaced," said Musk, who prior to the launch had put the odds of a successful touchdown on the first attempt at just 50 percent.

The primary purpose of Saturday's mission was to deliver cargo to the space station, a $100-billion laboratory that flies about 260 miles (418 km) above Earth.

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'Close but no cigar' for SpaceX's try at historic rocket landing

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The private space-exploration company successfully sends a cargo capsule off to the International Space Station, but its "reusable" rocket crashes into its floating landing pad in the Atlantic Ocean.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off early Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. An attempt to land the rocket on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean was unsuccessful. NASA

SpaceX almost made history on Saturday. Almost.

As part of its NASA-contracted mission to resupply the International Space Station, the private space-exploration company was attempting to launch the "world's first reusable rocket" and then land it on a landing pad floating in the Atlantic Ocean.

The launch, which was scrapped earlier this week because of a problem with a rocket part, went off without a hitch at 4:47 a.m. local time at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, according to NASA.

SpaceX's 14-story Falcon 9 rocket also successfully sent a Dragon cargo capsule on its way to the space station. But when the first stage of the Falcon 9 returned to Earth, it crashed into its 300-by-100-foot floating landing pad.

"Close, but no cigar this time," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Saturday morning. "Bodes well for the future tho."

SpaceX is one of a handful of private companies pursuing spaceflight, a realm once solely controlled by government space agencies. But the task isn't easy. In August, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a test flight. And in October, space-tourism company Virgin Galactic saw one of its space planes crash during a test flight, a mishap that killed one of the plane's two pilots.

Before Saturday's launch, SpaceX had put the odds of a successful landing at 50 percent "at best" and likened hitting the bull's eye to "trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm."

SpaceX has already started assessing what went wrong, and Musk tweeted an initial finding: "Grid fins worked extremely well from hypersonic velocity to subsonic, but ran out of hydraulic fluid right before landing." The grid fins are an upgrade for the rocket and are designed to move independently to help with landing, according to SpaceX.

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Elite: Dangerous – Tour of a beautiful space station, M. Gorbachev – Video

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Elite: Dangerous - Tour of a beautiful space station, M. Gorbachev
This is a short one, folks! It #39;s actually an excerpt from one of my previous videos. This particular space station is so awesome and people love it, I just had to dedicate a separate video...

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Astronauts Get Their Own LEGO Minifigures on Space Station

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The astronauts and cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station now have three new crewmates who look a lot like them only much smaller.

LEGO minifigures customized to look like NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shklaperov and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti were recently revealed as being on the orbital outpost. The tiny toy space explorers were among the gifts the crew exchanged on New Year's Day.

The station's resident cosmonauts Shklaperov, Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova included a photo of the LEGO minifigures velcroed to a wall as part of a blog entry they posted to Roscosmos' website. [See images of LEGOs in space]

"There were gifts!" the cosmonauts wrote, describing their celebration. "From family, friends and colleagues!"

Each of the 2-inch-tall (5 centimeters) minifigures are clad in Russian Sokol spacesuits like the real crew members wore when they launched in November from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Each of the small suits even has the proper agency and national flags: NASA/USA for Virts, Roscosmos/Russia for Shklaperov and ESA/Italy for Cristoforetti.

Shklaperov's and Cristoforetti's minifig suits also feature the Soyuz TMA-15M mission patch, whereas Virts' figure includes a LEGO football, similar to one he has been seen tossing around on the space station.

The cosmonauts said that the minifigures were a gift from Cristoforetti. She received them from a training instructor at the European Space Agency, who commissioned them from the UK-based company Minifigs.me.

The minifigures were customized based on photos of the crew. The company was unaware that their creations were space-bound until they saw the cosmonauts' post.

"I've always been a huge space nerd," Minifigs.me codirector Nick Savage said in a press statement. "I may never become an astronaut, but it is amazing to think my little LEGO guys have."

"It is wonderful to know that they are up there right now, whizzing through space at over 17,000 miles per hour. We have shipped all over the world before, but never off it," he remarked.

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SpaceX sets new launch date

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The fifth official SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract now is scheduled to launch at 4:47 a.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 10, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television coverage of the launch will begin at 3:30 a.m.

The previous launch attempt on Tuesday was aborted with one minute, 21 seconds left on the countdown clock because engineers observed drift on one of two thrust vector control actuators for the Falcon 9's second stage and stopped the countdown.

A Saturday launch will result in the Dragon spacecraft arriving at the space station Monday, Jan. 12. Expedition 42 Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA will use the station's 57.7-foot robotic arm to capture Dragon at approximately 6 a.m. Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency will support Wilmore as they operate from the station's cupola.

NASA TV coverage of grapple will begin at 4:30 a.m. Coverage of Dragon's installation to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module will begin at 8:15 a.m.

If the launch does not take place Saturday, the next launch opportunity would be Tuesday, Jan. 13 at about 3:36 a.m.

Dragon's cargo will support more than 250 experiments that will be conducted by the space station's Expeditions 42 and 43 crews.

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