26 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...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
...civil, one military, which parallels other countries (e.g. Cape Canaveral/Vandenberg and Baikonur/Plesetsk). The first one is...- and attended the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Cape Town, when welcomed by fellow BRICS member South Africa...
19 September 2023
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
...; Balto-Mediterranean; Eurasia; Indo-African; and Asia-Pacific. Cape Canaveral, as the chapter title suggests, is ‘The World’s Best...the Florida site does not dominate. That said, the Cape is probably the most accessible launch site thanks to American ...
01 April 2025
Florida’s Space Coast
...sunshine state may also know that the area around Cape Canaveral brands itself as the Space Coast. This book, ...1946, to use the deserted and mosquito-infested reaches of the Cape to test guided missiles. In their Foreword, the series editors summarise...
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...
