10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
...am EST (06:00 GMT) Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A joint effort with the Italian Space Agency, the IXPE observatory is NASA’s first mission dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from the...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... that culminates with the firing of all four RS-25 engines. Upon completion of the test, NASA’s Pegasus barge will take the core stage to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where it will be integrated with other parts of the rocket and Orion...
25 October 2021
NASA is targeting Feb 2022 for first Artemis launch
... the huge 98 metre-tall (322-foot) SLS/Orion system at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “Completing stacking is a really important milestone,” said Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis 1 mission manager. “It shows that we’re in the home stretch toward...
11 December 2020
NASA reveals Artemis Team to train for moon landings
... Artemis Team Wednesday during the eighth National Space Council meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “I give you the heroes...The Artemis Team astronauts are the future of American space exploration – and that future is bright." The ...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
...-1 members will be hoping for similar success when they depart from the famous Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center tomorrow, to join the ISS’s current inhabitants, Sergey Ryzhikov, Kate Rubins and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. Cosmonauts...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
...system traveling thousands of miles beyond the Moon – and for Artemis 2, the first mission with astronauts. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians are preparing to attach the Orion crew and service modules before testing at the agency...
