... are required to function Arrival at the launch site means exposure to humidity - especially in French Guiana and Florida - and presence of chemical substances such as cleaning agents and solvents, propellant and oxidisers or hydraulic fluids, known...
... to support horizontal launch systems. The former Space Shuttle runway at Kennedy Space Center, now part of Spaceport Florida. A future UK version is not on this scale. Co-location options The UK has decided upon locations for horizontal and...
... US Air Force’s first Global Positioning System III space vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Winners and losers SpaceX stole the headlines in February 2018 when it launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster...
... Space Exploration Analog and Simulation); the underwater analogue NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) in Florida; two generations of mobile habitats, called Space and Exploration Vehicles (SEV). Furthermore, a NASA-funded academic...
... flights to the general public in 2004. They use the Boeing 727 from several airports, and Orlando in Florida in particular. In Russia, Roscosmos still has three specialised IL-76MDK aircraft and the VEGITEL company offers services...
... in termination of the Soviet programme. An early (c1962) model of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) on display at a museum in Titusville, Florida. In this concept the astronauts sat in seats to fly the LEM and would climb down a rope to the...