20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
... Program. The launch escape test began at 10:30 am EST with liftoff from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to show the spacecraft’s capability to safely separate from the rocket in the unlikely event...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
..., and Noguchi will launch aboard Crew Dragon on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That launch is targeted for later this year. Walker was born in Houston and began her...
28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
... an undersea world. Thirty years ago, on April 24, 1990, Hubble was carried aloft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Discovery, along with a five-astronaut crew. Deployed into Earth orbit a day later, the...
20 September 2021
SpaceX all-civilian crew completes historic orbital mission
.... Slowed by parachutes, the Crew Dragon capsule Resilience landed near Kennedy Space Center, where ships retrieved the crew for a brief helicopter flight to the former space shuttle landing facility. The heat shield of the capsule underwent extreme...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Test-1 was successfully accomplished and EM-1 is in assembly and test at the Kennedy Space Center for launch in 2018, while EM-2 is on track for launch of the first deep space exploration crew, establishing a pathway that leads to Mars Base Camp...
07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
... end all three main rocket cores are reusable. Perfectly synchronised, the outer cores landed back at Kennedy Space Center. Just a few years ago the notion of re-landing reusable rockets seemed like a pipe dream and yet...
