Spacecraft

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    Why Nasa lit a fire inside cargo spacecraft in space

    Spacecraft are extraordinarily expensive and not that easy to come by, so why did Nasa recently set fire to one? It was all part of a set of space fire experiments inside Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft. Saffire, Nasa's

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    Watch out! 13-tonne Mars probe is due to fall to Earth

    AP The heaviest interplanetary spacecraft ever launched is expected to fall to Earth early in the new year - and it's not yet possible to calculate the expected crash site. The Russian Phobos-Ground probe was supposed to land on a moon

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