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...
11 October 2018
Apollo Program Development Plan
... displays, for example, how the spacesuit manufacturer reported to the Manned Spacecraft Center and the Crawler transporter supplier reported to Kennedy Space Center. Most people consider the Apollo programme a triumph of engineering and technology...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... from 2011 to 2012. The beginning of private sector activities could have the same effects, in a proportional way, as Kennedy Space Center had on Florida State. More than starting a new segment, we hope to completely transform the area showing the...
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...
