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  • ScienceAOL

    SpaceX’s new crew capsule completes space station docking

    SpaceX's new crew capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, completing its second milestone in just over a day. No-one was on board the Dragon capsule that launched on Saturday on its first test flight, only an instrumented

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    SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft blasts off into space

    SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft took off on Saturday morning, marking the first major step towards US ambitions to resume sending astronauts into space on its own spacecraft on American soil. The uncrewed spacecraft launched from Nasa's

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    Japanese researchers design 'space elevator'

    An innovative plan for a 'space elevator' connecting Earth to the International Space Station is being tested in miniature. A team from Shizuoka University in Japan is behind the launch into orbit of a scale model of the device - two