08 May 2017
"Secret" space plane lands after 2 years in orbit
...nearly two years in orbit conducting a classified mission, the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B unmanned space plane landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday. Built by Boeing, the U.S. military's experimental X-37B, which has overtones of the...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
... to and from the Moon for the first time in 50 years is on launch pad 39B this morning (Monday) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A two-hour launch window for today is scheduled to open at 08.33 am local Eastern time (13.33 BST, 14.33 CEST) for...
28 December 2018
Dream Chaser spacecraft passes key NASA milestone
...the Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract. All Dream Chaser CRS-2 cargo missions are planned to land at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility. "NASA's acknowledgement that SNC has completed this critical milestone and its approval...
02 August 2020
SpaceX’s historic Demo-2 mission ends with a splash
... operated American crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space Station to complete a test flight that marks ...SpaceX Demo-2 test flight launched May 30 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After reaching orbit, Behnken and Hurley named...
19 September 2023
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
...coverage is an interesting mix of historic and modern, facilities and technology, and an early monochrome view of the Kennedy Space Center ‘rocket garden’ shows how things have progressed since the 1960s. The Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, marks...
01 April 2025
Florida’s Space Coast
... and culture, serves to enhance that understanding by analysing the impact of the space endeavour on the area. The author, who has documented the history of Kennedy Space Center since 1972, begins with a decision by the US military, in 1946, to use...
