29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
...2020 rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in July 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It is expected ...based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management.
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...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Test-1 was successfully accomplished and EM-1 is in assembly and test at the Kennedy Space Center for launch in 2018, while EM-2 is on track for launch of the first deep space exploration crew, establishing a pathway that leads to Mars Base Camp...
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...
