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High-altitude balloon in NASA test soars aloft from Madras Airport Projects goal is to safely drop items from space back to Earth MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A large high-altitude balloon soared aloft from the Madras Airport early Thursday morning, ascending more than 22 miles to test for NASA a new way of returning items to Earth, without rockets. The balloon, which launched around 6 a.m., is part of an experiment to test the accuracy of landing items dropped from the International Space Station sa...

Virgin Galactic aborts its first crewed flight  Dec 12, 2020, 08:38 PM facebook Quinn Tucker for Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic on Saturday appeared to abort a manned flight of a rocket-powered spaceship from a New Mexico spaceport.  "Take off! VMS Eve and SpaceShipTwo Unity have taken to the skies above Spaceport America, New Mexico," the company said on Twitter at about 8.30 local time. The company posted updates, saying it was about to launch, but then abruptl...

UCF science getting more time in zero-G with Virgin Galactic --and soon Virgin Orbit Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo set for liftoff this weekend Updated:  Tags:  Virgin Galactics mothership plane and SpaceShipTwo in the hangar in New Mexico. (Image: Virgin Galactic) (WKMG 2020) ORLANDO, Fla. – The avenues to send science into a space-like environment is increasing as the number of small launch companies continue to grow. This weekend the University of Central Florida will have a payload flyi...

Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is poised to launch the SpaceShipTwo as early as Saturday on a milestone powered flight test following a month-long delay due to COVID-19 restrictions in New Mexico. The company hopes to send a pair of astronauts, CJ Sturckow and Dave Mackay, aboard the VSS Unity on a suborbital trip, marking the spaceplane’s third crewed test mission. What’s more, this launch will be the first time that a crewed spaceflight has taken off from New Mexico soil — making it o...