05 February 2018
Launch fever grips Florida as SpaceX prepares for game-changer mission
...- the last big launch from KSC was the final Space Shuttle mission - launch fever has come again to this part ...which means it could launch heavier and more complex cargo to space. Once operational, SpaceX could start launching big national security ...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... as the beginning of a new era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts into low Earth orbit - an arrangement that has been in place since NASA's Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011.
04 May 2021
New NASA Administrator sworn in
... Florida’s 9th and 11th districts in the US House of Representatives. While chair of the House space subcommittee, Nelson flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia as a payload specialist on the STS-61C mission in 1986, where he conducted 12 medical...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... now to go out there and actually do something that positively affects the future of humanity on Earth.” Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and Space Station Astronaut Ed Lu B612 Foundation Founder & CEO The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and...
06 August 2015
NASA pays Roscosmos $490 million for ISS access even as U.S.-Russia relations at a historic low
...astronauts to the ISS until at least 2019. NASA’s own Space Shuttle program ended in 2012. No one was quick enough to fill... deal between NASA and Roscosmos shows how innovation in the space industry must be carefully paced, especially when it comes to...
12 October 2018
Soyuz investigation focuses on second stage failure
... 19 and 25 October to replace a set of batteries in the Space Station’s solar power system will be deferred but two upcoming US supply ... astronauts to the ISS since the Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011 and space co-operation is an area which has...
