Biggest space missions rocket launches in 2018

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Falcon Heavy Launch 2018
The Falcon Heavy was due to launch in late 2013, but the vehicle’s inaugural flight has been consistently pushed back. Now, five years after the launch’s original target date in January 2018.
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NASA's Mars Mission 2018
In 2018 . NASA is launching a new lander to Mars, as well as a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than ever before.
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Rocket Lab Test Launch 2018
US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab intended to do a second test flight in December, but the weather and some technical snags prevented the launch. Now, the company plans to launch again in early 2018, and if the flight goes well, Rocket Lab may stop test flights and go straight to commercial missions.
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Tess Launch, March 2018
NASA’s going to launch TESS in 2018. It was announced that TESS will look for planets as they pass in front of distant stars and slightly dim the stars’ light. Its expected TESS will be launched no earlier than March and no later than June on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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Commercial Crew Test Flights, April – November 2018
IN 2018 first test of two vehicles that are part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the space agency’s initiative to launch astronauts on privately made spacecraft. Both SpaceX and Boeing have been developing capsules to carry passengers to the space station. Boeing is targeting August for an uncrewed flight of the Starliner and a crewed flight for November.
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Launch of Nasa's Insight Mars Lander
InSight spacecraft is designed by NASA to land on the surface of Mars, where it will study the interior of the Red Planet and figure out how the world formed billions of years ago. The lander was originally supposed to launch in 2016, but the mission was delayed after a leak was spotted in one of the spacecraft’s instruments. It should land on Mars around seven months later, on November 26th.
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