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...
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...
07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
... end all three main rocket cores are reusable. Perfectly synchronised, the outer cores landed back at Kennedy Space Center. Just a few years ago the notion of re-landing reusable rockets seemed like a pipe dream and yet...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
..., US astronauts have been hitching a ride to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which lifts off...different locations with SpaceX flying from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center – the same one used by the shuttles and ...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... director Benji Reed said during a press briefing earlier this week. Crew-2 lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 ET (9:49 am GMT) in a flawless flight which saw SpaceX launch both a reused rocket and a reused capsule for...
24 August 2022
Moon mission's human-rated European Service Module is giant leap for ESA
... of the preparedness of the 98-metre high stack, consisting of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft currently sitting on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida - NASA declared it was all systems go. The Artemis...
