January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
...Award (presented personally by the astronauts) and a Manned Flight Awareness (MFA) Award, which included a trip to Kennedy Space Center to view the launch of Apollo 17. These two awards are part of the MFA programme, designed to recognise individuals...
02 December 2014
X-37B spaceplane lands safely
... original 2010 launch atop an Atlas V rocket. It is intended that future operations will be carried out from the Kennedy Space Center, where the former shuttle Orbiter Processing Facilities are leased to Boeing. The X-37 has now completed more...
29 April 2016
SpaceX Announces Plans for Mars Mission.
...be a good approach,” he said during a press conference April 8 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after the Falcon 9 launch of a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. That approach, he added, included eventually establishing a “city...
28 September 2016
Musk unveils ambitious plans for Mars
... spaceship is planned to make test flights in four years, initially going into space, but not into orbit. Initially SpaceX will used Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center which is being leased from NASA and later a second launch base...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... successfully launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday – the first commercial flight to do so from Kennedy’s historic pad since it was last used for the Space Shuttle program almost six years ago. Following...
30 September 2020
Another detection of phosphine on Venus possibly found in archival data
...August, the Multiprobe spacecraft took to the skies from the Kennedy Space Center via an Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle. As the craft ...atmosphere. Another chance might lie with Japan’s Akatsuki space probe which is currently in orbit around Venus. ...
