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This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space Sunday May 12, 2013. The song was his cover version of David Bowie's Space Oddity. Hadfield and astronaut Thomas Marshburn are scheduled to return to earth Monday May 13, 2013. (AP Photo/NASA, Chris Hadfield)

Astronaut's space station music video is a hit

Last updated Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 5:27pm

Houston, we have a superstar. He’s Chris Hadfield, who crawled out of a space capsule on the plains of Kazakhstan early Tuesday (late Monday EDT), dealing with gravity for the first time in five months and sudden global celebrity from singing a gone-viral made-in-space music video.

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Russia now charging NASA $70M per seat to space station

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 3:42pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense.

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The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, March 1, 2013. The rocket will transport the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station containing more than a ton of food, tools, computer hardware and science experiments. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX rocket has trouble with thrusters at liftoff

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 1, 2013 - 2:17pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A commercial craft carrying a ton of supplies for the International Space Station ran into thruster trouble shortly after liftoff Friday, and flight controllers scrambled to fix the problem.

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In this Tuesday photo made available by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon capsule attached begins a rollout demonstration test in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Tonight, the private space company will attempt to launch another capsule full of food, clothes and science experiments for the astronauts at the space station. The company hopes to repeat the success of its May test flight. (JIM GROSSMAN/The Associated Press)

SpaceX to try launch tonight; cargo headed to International Space Station

W.J. Hennigan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, October 6, 2012 - 11:35pm

LOS ANGELES — Rocket maker SpaceX is poised to return to the International Space Station with its Dragon spacecraft to carry out the first contracted cargo resupply flight in NASA’s history.

SpaceX performed a successful demonstration mission to the space station in May, showing NASA that the company could do the job.

SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, Calif., has secured a $1.6 billion contract to carry out 12 such cargo missions, and today’s mission would be the first.

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In this photo provided by SpaceX, the Dragon spacecraft floats on the surface of the Pacific Ocean about 500 miles off Mexico's Baja California on Thursday, May 31, 2012 after its mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/SpaceX, Michael Altenhofen)

SpaceX Dragon splashes down, ends historic trip

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 1:35pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The SpaceX Dragon supply ship returned to Earth on Thursday, ending its revolutionary nine-day voyage to the International Space Station with an old-fashioned splashdown in the Pacific.

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This framegrab image from NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon capsule just after the capsule is released from the Canadarm2 at 5:49 a.m. EDT Thursday morning May 31, 2012. The Dragon capsule is scheduled for splashdown at 11:44 a.m. EDT Thursday in the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo/NASA)

SpaceX Dragon leaves space station for trip home

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 10:40am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The SpaceX Dragon capsule left the International Space Station on Thursday and aimed for a Pacific splashdown to end its historic flight.

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Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 7:32am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.

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This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft taken from Canadarm2's video camera as Dragon approaches the International Space Station, Friday, May 25, 2012. In foreground is a portion of Canadarm2. Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple the supply ship Friday morning with the berthing to the Earth-facing side of the station’s Harmony node following. Dragon is scheduled to spend about a week docked with the station before returning to Earth on May 31 for retrieval. (AP Photo/NASA)

Dragon arrives at space station in historic first

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 25, 2012 - 11:37am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.

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The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Tuesday, May 22, 2012. This launch marks the first time, a private company sends its own rocket to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.(AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX successfully flies by International Space Station

W.J. Hennigan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 9:33am

While orbiting Earth at about 17,000 mph, SpaceX's Dragon capsule came within 1.5 miles of the International Space Station in preparation for its historic hook-up scheduled for later this week.

The fly-by, confirmed by NASA in its webcast, is a critical step for the company, officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and its goal of becoming the world's first private firm to dock a craft with the space station.

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Private rocket blasts off for space station

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 10:32am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.

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SpaceX will try 1st private cargo run again Tues.

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 1:57pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Private rocket maker SpaceX aimed for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that caused a launch abort over the weekend, stalling the world's first commercial space station supply flight.

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SpaceX launch to space station aborted

W.J. Hennigan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 9:42pm

LOS ANGELES — The first mission by a private company to the International Space Station was aborted before dawn Saturday at Cape Canaveral, Fla., when computers detected an anomaly in one of the rocket’s engines and automatically shut down the launch sequence.

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SpaceX rocket launch aborted in last second

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 7:01am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.

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Several companies vying to fly to space station

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 2:45pm

Several companies are working on rockets and spacecraft that could ferry supplies and astronauts to the International Space Station, now that the shuttle program is over.

A brief look at each:

* Alliant Techsystems Inc., or ATK, headquartered in Arlington, Va., with aerospace division in Magna, Utah. Developing Liberty launch system including rocket and passenger spacecraft. Test flights to begin in 2014, with possible first manned launch in 2015.

* Blue Origin in Kent, Wash. Run by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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NASA rooting for SpaceX rocket flight to space station

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 2:46pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.

If this unmanned flight and others like it succeed, commercial spacecraft could be ferrying astronauts to the orbiting outpost within five years.

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