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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns To Earth

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A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, launched into space by Los Angeles-based SpaceX in June, returned to earth on Friday afternoon, landing in the Pacific Ocean at 3:17 p.m. SpaceX retrieved the Dragon on Friday and brought it back to Long Beach, for return to NASA. READ MORE>>.

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SpaceX To Provide Internet To Texas School District

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Hawthorne, California-based rocket launch, spacecraft, and satellite developer SpaceX , in one of the first large scale deployments of its Starlink satellite constellation, will provide Internet access to Ector County, Texas.

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SpaceX Dragon Departs ISS This Morning

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The latest mission launched by Hawthorne-based SpaceX --the NASA CRS-8 mission to resupply the International Space Station--is getting set to return to earth this morning, as the SpaceX Dragon separates from the ISS and returns to earth. NASA is streaming the departure live this morning starting at 9 a.m. READ MORE>>.

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New Matter Donates 3D Printers To STEM Program

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Pasadena-based 3D printer manufacturer New Matter announced this morning that it is donating five of its MOD-t 3D printers to a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education organization program in Downey, called the Challenger Center. The center says it is just down the road from such companies as Virgin Orbit and SpaceX.

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United Lauch Alliance Sends NASA/NOAA Payload Into Space

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the launch also carried five CubeSats carrying a number of space research and education projects. The SpaceX Falcon 9 currently has a list price of $62M per launch. According to the ULA, it sent the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) for NASA and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) into space at 1:47 a.m.

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United Launch Alliance Sends NASA/NOAA Payload Into Space

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the launch also carried five CubeSats carrying a number of space research and education projects. The SpaceX Falcon 9 currently has a list price of $62M per launch. According to the ULA, it sent the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) for NASA and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) into space at 1:47 a.m.

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Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program

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Demographics at funds and startups will also be under the microscope, since signatories have agreed to report on their composition by race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability status, immigration status, veteran status, educational attainment, socioeconomic origin, tenure at a firm.