18 May 2020
Mystery US X-37B spaceplane makes its sixth flight
... Alliance Atlas V rocket Sunday morning. The vehicle lifted off at 09:14 AM Eastern time from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and the first stage appeared to perform flawlessly as it lofted the vehicle in to the...
29 July 2020
Mars 2020 mission, Perseverance rover 'go for launch,' says NASA
... protected this mission because it is so important." The launch will take place at 7:50 am EDT (11:50 GMT) on Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Live coverage will take place on YouTube and across...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
30th May, 2020 will go down in spaceflight history as the day two US astronauts lifted off from US soil on a SpaceX private rocket destined for the International Space Station. It was second time a charm for SpaceX and NASA as earlier attempts to ...
16 September 2021
SpaceX launches Inspiration4 all-civilian crew into orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying four space tourists blasted off Wednesday night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first mission to orbit the globe with an all-civilian crew. A huge fireball illuminated the sky as the rocket's nine ...
14 July 2015
ULA Atlas V blasts off from Cape Canaveral with GPS IIF-10 – and shows how SpaceX needs a longer track record
The first launch from Cape Canaveral since the recent SpaceX launch failure has gone off without a hitch. This is the 55th successful ...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... some sort of transporter van. In the 1960s, US Mercury astronauts travelled alone from their crew-quarters at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station inside a converted semi-trailer known simply as the ‘transfer van’. It was pulled by a tractor...
