11 October 2018
ISRO: a personal history
... built large hives in the mobile service tower that employees were afraid to approach), provides an interesting counterpoint to Cape Canaveral. The book is illustrated with a 16-page photo insert containing black-and-white (and even sepia-toned...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
.... Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars on Jan. 24, 2004, seven months after its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Its twin rover, Spirit, landed 20 days earlier in the 103-mile-wide...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
... the Mars 2020 rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in July 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It is expected to reach Mars in February 2021. The 2020 rover will conduct geological...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
... Ascent Abort-2, a test version of the Orion crew module launched at 7 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a modified Peacekeeper missile procured through the U.S. Air Force and built by Northrop...
01 October 2019
The Moon: A History for the Future
...find that, in 2016, he admitted to a friend that he’d never seen a rocket launch; he subsequently viewed a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral that made him “feel different about such undertakings”. However, he could hardly be said to have ‘drunk the...
23 December 2019
Starliner lands successfully despite problems during inaugural flight
....” The uncrewed Starliner spacecraft launched on the ULA Atlas V rocket at 6:36 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
