...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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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, obtained...
... of life. As a NASA spokesman once wryly observed, the best way to find life on another planet is to import it from Florida.10 There are also broader environmental issues, as yet unforeseen, which could have profound repercussions for any...
... 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 more data in order to recover the...