10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
...am EST (06:00 GMT) Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A joint effort with the Italian Space Agency, the IXPE observatory is NASA’s first mission dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from the...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... that culminates with the firing of all four RS-25 engines. Upon completion of the test, NASA’s Pegasus barge will take the core stage to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where it will be integrated with other parts of the rocket and Orion...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
...-1 members will be hoping for similar success when they depart from the famous Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center tomorrow, to join the ISS’s current inhabitants, Sergey Ryzhikov, Kate Rubins and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. Cosmonauts...
25 October 2021
NASA is targeting Feb 2022 for first Artemis launch
... the huge 98 metre-tall (322-foot) SLS/Orion system at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “Completing stacking is a really important milestone,” said Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis 1 mission manager. “It shows that we’re in the home stretch toward...
20 March 2020
SpaceX plans first crewed flight to ISS in May
... planned for mid-May. The entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from US soil – the first time since 2011 – as it looks...
11 December 2020
NASA reveals Artemis Team to train for moon landings
... Artemis Team Wednesday during the eighth National Space Council meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “I give you the heroes...The Artemis Team astronauts are the future of American space exploration – and that future is bright." The ...
