Following up on last nights awesome launch of the BepiColombo spacecraft on its mission to study Mercury, I thought it only fitting to share the launch highlights video on the beginning of the mission – the launch of Arianespace VA245! These videos are similar to the ones United Launch Alliance puts out for their launches, …
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BepiColombo Begins Its Mission To Mercury – Ariane 5 Flight VA245
Mercury isn’t a very well understood planet, and up until relatively recently, it was considered a boring, dead world not worth focusing on. All this changed with NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft and its amazing mission to Mercury discovered evidence of water ice on the incredibly hot planet. BepiColombo is a joint ESA and JAXA mission to …
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Beginning My Trip To The U.S. Space And Rocket Center And More!
This is a fun one. At the time this is publishing and I’d hope many are reading this article, I’m on my way with a friend to Huntsville, Alabama, to pay a visit to the U.S. Space And Rocket Center! I’ve not been there since 5th grade, which was early 1996 and while I know …
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Here’s Some Random Rocket Launches – Have A Great 4th Of July!
It’s the 4th of July tomorrow and, being quite honest, I had nothing quite planned to write today or tomorrow. However, to keep up with the spirit of Xadara, my love of space, and in a classic “Happy Birthday America” bit of patriotism, I’ve decided to just flood you with some random rocket launches in …
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55 Years Ago, the Flight of Liberty Bell 7
Two and a half months after the flight of Freedom 7, NASA was ready for another Mercury – Redstone test flight. The pilot for this flight was Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom, a Korean War Veteran from the United States Air Force. This flight was to be a duplicate of Shepards Freedom 7 flight, testing out …
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55 Years Ago, the Flight of Freedom 7
May 5th, 1961. 3 Weeks after the successful Soviet flight of Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1, the United States was ready to send it’s first human into space, United States Naval Officer Alan Bartlett Shepard. His flight, designated Mercury-Redstone 3, was intended to prove that a person can survive the stresses associated with the launch …
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