14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... Mercury, asteroids — anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity,” explained Metzger. Metzger, who worked at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before joining UCF, spent three years developing the adaptable technology needed to turn the idea into...
29 January 2021
NASA is looking at commercial options to launch its Europa Clipper
... mission had to be launched on NASA’s huge, but problematic Space Launch Systems (SLS) rocket. However, development on the SLS ...that runs from 10-24 October, 2024. "NASA/Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is hereby soliciting information from potential ...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine addressed ... missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. We will continue planning and developing the first round-trip mission ...
20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
... Program. The launch escape test began at 10:30 am EST with liftoff from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to show the spacecraft’s capability to safely separate from the rocket in the unlikely event...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
..., and Noguchi will launch aboard Crew Dragon on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That launch is targeted for later this year. Walker was born in Houston and began her...
28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
... an undersea world. Thirty years ago, on April 24, 1990, Hubble was carried aloft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Discovery, along with a five-astronaut crew. Deployed into Earth orbit a day later, the...
