02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
... Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a modified Peacekeeper missile procured through the U.S. Air Force...with astronauts. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians are preparing to attach the Orion crew ...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
...historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob...will support Demo-2 are onsite at SpaceX’s facilities in Florida. To mark the return of human spaceflight on American ...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... tests that replicate the conditions of flight.The new digital controllers are built by Honeywell Aerospace in Clearwater, Florida, a major subcontractor to Aerojet Rocketdyne. The SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, Gateway and Human Landing System are...
04 May 2021
New NASA Administrator sworn in
...successes. Prior to his nomination, was a member-at-large on NASA’s advisory council. From 2001 to 2019, Nelson represented Florida in the U.S. Senate, where he served as ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and led...
16 September 2021
SpaceX launches Inspiration4 all-civilian crew into orbit
... off Wednesday night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first mission to orbit the globe with an all-... four-person crew, all Americans, will splash down off the Florida coast. "The #Inspiration4 launch reminds us of what can be...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... where they've flown their version of Skylab", says Roger Handberg, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida, comparing Tiangong 1 to the US's first space station. The diminutive Skylab launched in 1973 and, along with the...
