** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

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GOES-R and Atlas V readied for launch:

Today's launch window is 21:42-23:42 UTC and will be live on NASA TV.

 

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Atlas V GOES-R Launch Highlights:

 

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Two more spectacular images from the launch:

 

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Expedition 50-51 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency dock to the station:

 

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Say hello to the new guys...

 

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Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo ship leaves the station:

 

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A room with a view...

 

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The rocket science behind propulsion in two minutes:

 

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Cargo spacecraft "Progress MS-04" being prepared for launch:

Launch from Baikonur is on December 1st at 14:51 UTC.

 

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50 years of Soyuz:

Nov. 28, 2016 — It launched under a different name and was not officially disclosed until almost two decades later, but Russia's first Soyuz spacecraft lifted off into history 50 years ago Monday (Nov. 28).

The Soyuz, which became the former Soviet Union's third class of crewed transport spacecraft and is still used today to take cosmonaut and astronaut crews to the International Space Station, first flew under the intentionally nondescript title "Kosmos 133" on Nov. 28, 1966.

 

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"Progress MS-04" rollout ready for launch on the 1st:

 

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Progress launch:

Unfortunately it has been confirmed that the Progress cargo craft has been lost.

 

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This week:

 

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Tim Peake’s Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft to go on display in the Science Museum in early 2017:

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/soyuz-tma-19m-tim-peakes-spacecraft/

 

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew freely for the first time:

 

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The U.S. Air Force's eighth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite being launched today:

Launch is at 23:53 UTC, here:

 

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Delta IV WGS-8 Launch Highlights:

 

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John Glenn the first American to orbit the earth has died at the age of 95.

https://www.nasa.gov/johnglenn

RIP

 

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John Glenn, 1921 – 2016.

 

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s H-IIB rocket launches Dec. 9 from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan carrying the unpiloted “Kounotori” H-II Transfer Vehicle-6 (HTV-6) to orbit to begin a four-day journey to the International Space Station: