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A crowd stands at Surf Beach, just outside Lompoc, waiting for a rocket to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

‘Your bones rattle’: The thrill of chasing rocket launches in this California coastal town

About 22 miles north of Santa Barbara, Lompoc has become a day trip destination for aerospace aficionados.

This image provided by the European Space Agency shows the Sun's corona captured by the Proba-3 pair of spacecraft on May 23, 2025, in the visible light spectrum, with the hair-like structures revealed using a specialized image processing algorithm. (ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS/WOW algorithm via AP)

How two satellites are mimicking total solar eclipses in space

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule stands ready for launch on pad 39A for a mission to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Space station leak concerns will delay visit by astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 09: Jared Isaacman, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator, leaves following his Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 09, 2025 in Washington, DC. Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and close associate of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, previously chartered two private astronaut flights to orbit including the all-civilian American "space tourist" Inspiration4 mission. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Hiltzik: Trump’s NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future

Jared Isaacman arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, to prepare for an upcoming SpaceX private human spaceflight mission. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Trump says he’s withdrawing the nomination of Musk associate Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

SpaceX launches another Starship rocket after back-to-back explosions, but it tumbles out of control

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space

SpaceX launches a crew to space station to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts

Billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk is Trump’s pick to lead NASA

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