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Private Spacecraft to Boost NASA Telescope's Orbit for the First Time

NASA has announced that for the first time, it will contract out a private spacecraft to reboost one of its falling satellites: the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The observatory has spent the past ...
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That Time NASA Pilots Flew a Jet to the Edge of the Atmosphere

In the late 1950s and 1960s, the X-15 pushed the limits of speed and altitude like no aircraft before it. Born under NACA and later handed to NASA, it reached Mach 6.7 and nearly 70 miles high - ...
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Audiotapes, X-15 Cockpit Tapes, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, (NASA) X-15 Flight, Speed Run

A. Scott Crossfield Papers, Accession number 2006-0041, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. A. Scott Crossfield Papers, Acc. 2006-0041, National ...