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Phong Nha, Vietnam (AFP) Jan 20, 2021 - Vast rock formations the size of multi-storey buildings loom above Ho Minh Phuc, as he picks a path through the gloom inside the world's largest cave.
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Phong Nha, Vietnam (AFP) Jan 20, 2021 - Vast rock formations the size of multi-storey buildings loom above Ho Minh Phuc, as he picks a path through the gloom inside the world's largest cave.
Jan 20, 2021

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 20, 2021 - SpaceX launched another shipment of 60 Starlink satellites from Florida on Wednesday morning, adding to a rapidly growing cluster of high-speed broadband communications spacecraft.
Jan 20, 2021

Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 - Australia's leading rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has ushered in the New Year with a successful hotfire of the world's largest single-port hybrid rocket engine. [See video] We a
Jan 20, 2021

Berlin (AFP) Jan 19, 2021 - Signs are emerging that the coronavirus pandemic is finally dragging Germany's notoriously sluggish administrative processes into the 21st century - albeit one very small step at a time.
Jan 19, 2021

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 19, 2021 - Two Russian cosmonauts completed the first spacewalk of 2022 outside the International Space Station to perform tasks that will allow spacecraft to dock with a new Russian segment.
Jan 19, 2021

Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2021 - Three major components of China's space station program have passed technical and quality assessments and are ready for upcoming missions, the China Manned Space Agency said. Experts from the
Jan 19, 2021

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 18, 2021 - SpaceX plans to launch 49 Starlink satellites from Florida on Tuesday evening, bringing the total number of Starlinks launched to over 2,000.
Jan 18, 2021

Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 - The core module of China's planned space station has passed a factory review, along with the project's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft and the core module mission products of the space application systems, t
Jan 18, 2021

Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 18, 2021 - NASA's plan to test its new moon rocket fell short of a scheduled eight-minute test-firing Saturday in Mississippi as the engines were shut down at just over a minute into the test. The 212-fo
Jan 18, 2021

Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 - Three major components of China's space station program have passed technical and quality assessments and are ready for upcoming missions, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Experts f
Jan 18, 2021

Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 18, 2021 - NASA's plan to test its new moon rocket fell short of a scheduled eight-minute test-firing Saturday in Mississippi as the engines were shut down at just over a minute into the test. The 212-fo
Jan 18, 2021

Washington (AFP) Jan 17, 2021 - Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit project on Sunday successfully flew a rocket into space from the wing of a 747 plane, paving the way for a new method of launching low-cost satellites.
Jan 17, 2021

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 17, 2021 - California-based Virgin Orbit made its first successful flight to orbit Sunday using a rocket launched from a plane over the Pacific Ocean, announcing later that the satellites aboard were released successfully.
Jan 17, 2021

Washington (AFP) Jan 17, 2021 - NASA conducted a test firing of the engines for its giant Space Launch System (SLS) lunar rocket on Saturday but they shut down earlier than planned, the space agency said.
Jan 17, 2021

Paris (ESA) Jan 15, 2021 - Inside one of the containers of this 40-cm-across miniature laboratory in orbit, a battle is set to start between asteroid-like fragments and rock-hungry microbes, to probe their use for space minin
Jan 15, 2021

Cleveland OH (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 - On January 9, 1989 Space Station Freedom officials gathered at the Lewis Research Center to dedicate the Power Systems Facility (PSF), NASA's first facility constructed specifically to test station
Jan 15, 2021