14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... Mercury, asteroids — anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity,” explained Metzger. Metzger, who worked at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before joining UCF, spent three years developing the adaptable technology needed to turn the idea into...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine addressed the agency’s workforce to discuss where NASA is heading next, following the delivery of President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal to the U.S. ...
20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
... Program. The launch escape test began at 10:30 am EST with liftoff from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to show the spacecraft’s capability to safely separate from the rocket in the unlikely event...
28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
...it resembles an undersea world. Thirty years ago, on April 24, 1990, Hubble was carried aloft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Discovery, along with a five-astronaut crew. Deployed into Earth orbit a day later, the...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... senior director Benji Reed said during a press briefing earlier this week. Crew-2 lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 ET (9:49 am GMT) in a flawless flight which saw SpaceX launch both a reused rocket and a reused capsule...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
... 9’s launch of Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission (Demo-2) from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first two...
