28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
... a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is expected to launch about six... to ten times. Musk had also mentioned installing a “deep space communications system”, necessary for longer trips, that still has to be...
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...
20 September 2021
SpaceX all-civilian crew completes historic orbital mission
.... Slowed by parachutes, the Crew Dragon capsule Resilience landed near Kennedy Space Center, where ships retrieved the crew for a brief helicopter flight to the former space shuttle landing facility. The heat shield of the capsule underwent extreme...
