July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... the oxygen and kerosene to explosively combine without tearing the engine apart. A test of the F-1 engine in the Mojave desert at Edwards Air Force Base in the 1960s. It was tested extensively, both singly and in clusters. Soviet response...
November 2021
Space launch emergency response
... experimental spaceflight test vehicle, which suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert in October 2014, killing the co-pilot and seriously injuring the pilot. It was the first major in-flight...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... process of beaming back science and engineering data, via NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California's Mojave Desert. During this final chapter, Cassini will make a total of 22 dives between Saturn and its rings, as it loops...
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
... maiden spaceflight as it successfully reached the edge of space yesterday to return without a hitch back in the Mojave Desert in California. After taking off attached to the company’s carrier plane WhiteKnightTwo, VSS Unity rocketed to an altitude...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
...’s population – via the collaborative efforts of ground stations on three different continents, located at Goldstone, in California’s Mojave desert, in central Spain, and in southeastern Australia. At the time of the anticipated first step, the giant...
