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Rocket Lab to launch satellites, recover booster tonight: Watch live

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November 10, 2021

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SpaceX's Crew-3 mission launching to space station tonight: Watch it live!

(Joel Kowsky/NASA)

Following a series of delays, SpaceX will launch a crew of four astronauts Wednesday evening (Nov. 10) on its third operational crewed flight for NASA, and you can watch the action online. The SpaceX mission, known as Crew-3, is scheduled to blast off from Pad 39A here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 9:03 p.m. EST (0203 GMT on Nov. 9). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will send a Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts toward the International Space Station (ISS) — if the weather cooperates. You can watch the launch live here and on the Space.com homepage, courtesy of NASA.

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Rocket Lab to launch satellites, recover booster tonight: Watch live

Rocket Lab plans to recover a booster after launching two satellites to orbit tonight (Nov. 10), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage Electron rocket topped with two commercial Earth-observation satellites is scheduled to lift off tonight from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site at 11:25 p.m. EST (0425 GMT on Nov. 11). If all goes according to plan, shortly after liftoff, the Electron's first stage will splash down softly in the Pacific Ocean under parachutes, and Rocket Lab teams will fish it out of the sea. You can watch it all live here at Space.com, courtesy of Rocket Lab, as well as on this page and directly via the company. Coverage will begin about 20 minutes before launch.

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Spaceflight

Space Station to dodge Chinese space junk before SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut launch

(Roscosmos)

The International Space Station will have to dodge a piece of Chinese space junk today (Nov. 10) just hours before SpaceX launches a new crew to the orbiting laboratory, NASA officials said. "The space station team is tracking a piece of debris and are planning a debris avoidance maneuver about six hours prior to launch," Joel Montalbano, NASA's International Space Station program manager, told reporters late Tuesday in a prelaunch briefing.

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Virgin Galactic sells 100 new tickets for space tourist launches

Virgin Galactic's customer list has grown by more than 15% in the last few months. About 100 people have bought tickets to ride to suborbital space and back since Virgin Galactic reopened sales in August, company representatives said Monday (Nov. 8) in a quarterly earnings call with investors. Virgin Galactic now has about 700 folks in its customer pool. The company aims to boost that number to 1,000 by the time it begins commercial operations, a milestone currently pegged for late 2022, Virgin Galactic representatives said.

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Science & Astronomy

New NASA video takes you plummeting through Venus' atmosphere

(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

NASA wants you to get excited about the nightmare world next door. This spring, the agency announced that it would develop two new missions to explore Venus in the early 2030s. One, dubbed VERITAS (short for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy), would orbit the planet, peering through its thick clouds. The other, dubbed DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging), would go one step farther, dropping a high-tech probe to plummet through the acrid Venusian atmosphere. Now, NASA has released a new video highlighting the DAVINCI mission and the science it will conduct at our twin planet.

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Gravitational wave treasure trove shows black holes, neutron stars colliding

Scientists have released the largest catalog of gravitational wave detections to date, shedding new light on interactions between the most massive objects in the universe, black holes and neutron stars. The catalog contains 35 new gravitational wave events, ripples in spacetime predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1916.

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SpaceX

How to prepare for a SpaceX astronaut launch rescue (video)

(SpaceX)

A lot goes into a SpaceX launch, and that includes preparing for the possibility that things might not go according to plan. Space.com spoke with Daniel Forrestel, a NASA launch integration manager who is working on SpaceX's Crew-3 mission and who serves as the launch rescue director for SpaceX's crewed missions on launch day.

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Star Wars

Hurry! This Lego Star Wars AT-ST deal is $30 at Walmart... but it's selling fast

If you've been waiting for Black Friday to spend your money on Lego, then you should take a look at this Lego AT-ST Raider deal, currently running at Walmart. It's chopping the price of this 540 piece kit down to just $30 as part of the retailer's annual November 10 sale. We were checking out this kit earlier today, and it was listed at $49.99, which makes this a massive $20 saving from only hours ago.

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