14 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... Origin's Henderson envisions a time when there will be thousands of spaceports across the world and that, ultimately, Cape Canaveral may prove to have been just a starting point for human space exploration. “Today we’re constrained to coastal areas...
13 August 2021
Stuck valves keep Starliner grounded, August flight now unlikely
... teams have been able to power on Starliner, which is currently housed in the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, allowing the vehicle to receive commands. With direct access to the spacecraft for...
29 March 2018
NASA Kennedy Space Center
... place. Following a short textual introduction, the book’s seven chapters cover the roots of NASA’s rocket programme at Cape Canaveral and the various phases of manned space exploration up to the Shuttle and the ISS. A final chapter looks...
25 February 2018
Abandoned in Place – Preserving America’s Space History
... from a phrase stencilled on structures at deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station that were “too solid for any known... equipment; of course most of the metal gantries on the Cape were removed years ago. The author – an academic in...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... system to provide data relay support for ground assets at Mars. On 18 November 2013, the mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket and was inserted into Mars orbit on 21 September 2014. Three views of an escaping atmosphere...
June 2015
Astronauts having a laugh
... of the badge were the names of the crew: Bean, Garriott, Lousma. Jacques Tiziou, a journalist living close to Cape Canaveral, came up with the idea of taking the official badge but swapping Leonardo’s figure of a man for the...
