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A rocket carrying NASA's Orion space capsule lifts off for its first unmanned orbital test flight at Cape Canaveral, Fla. — (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier"

December 05, 2014

NASA: ‘There’s Your New Spacecraft, America!’

Photo released by Vandenberg Air Force Base after it landed on a previous orbital mission. — (Paul Pinner/AP)

October 14, 2014

Secret U.S. Space Plane To Land After 22 Months In Orbit

Astronaut and University of Illinois graduate Steven Nagel, who died Thursday. — (NASA)

August 23, 2014

Astronaut, Illinois Native, Steve Nagel Dies After Illness

NASA flight director Eugene F. Kranz at his console in Mission Control in Houston on May 30, 1965, during a Gemini-Titan IV simulation to prepare for the four-day, 62-orbit flight. — (NASA)

July 18, 2014

Forty-Five Years Ago, We First Landed On The Moon

An Apollo 12 astronaut makes footprints on the surface of the moon, Nov. 19, 1969. Rocks collected on the mission were among those recently re-examined by a team of German astronauts. — (AP)

June 06, 2014

New Look At Apollo Rocks Finds Evidence Of Moon’s Birth

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