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...
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...
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...
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...
26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
...’s Orion spacecraft is finally ready to be shipped to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA where it will be put together with ...should anything go wrong. And for additional storage (for space souvenirs perhaps?) it is also equipped with a stowaway ...
13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... To counter Musk’s pricing strategy, Russia will slash the price of its space launch services by 30 percent, said Rogozin. A move that means reducing non...a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida later this year.
