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...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... of the stars. The Delta II rocket carrying NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts off from Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:49 p.m. EST on 6 March 2009. Ron’s analysis demonstrated that we needed to collect a lot...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
... discovered a number of uses for areas affected by rocket parts. For example, the total area of launch facilities at Cape Canaveral, Wallops, Vandenberg, and Kwajalein is less than half the size of Russia’s Plesetsk launch facilities and the...
