CAPE CANAVERAL (CBS4)- For 30 years, the launch of space shuttles every couple of months or so has become a routine way of life in the minds of many Americans. On Friday that all ends when, for the last time, a space shuttle launches from Kennedy Space Center. According to CBS4's ...
The breathtaking final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis was captured in incredible photos snapped from an airborne training aircraft NASA uses to teach astronauts how to fly the winged spaceship. Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. today (July 8) at 11:29...
Weather permitting, the last-ever NASA shuttle launch will take place today at 11:26am EST. There is currently a70 percent chance that thunderstorms will delay blastoffof space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, until Saturday. But despite the gamble, NASA...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With a real 'rocket's red glare' awaiting them, the four American astronauts who will fly NASA's final space shuttle mission made an Independence Day arrival today at their Florida launch site for a planned July 8 liftoff. "I think I speak for the whole crew tha...
, at 11:26am EST. But it may get to live a bit longer, if Mother Nature has anything to say about it. The forecast for Cape Canaveral, Florida, where the last-ever shuttle launch will take place, calls for thunderstorms, which would require the NASA team to push back the launch....
United States Senator John Glenn returned to orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery in late October, 1998, 36 years after his first lift-off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (46) The 77-year-old politician, who in 1962 became America’s first man to orbit the Earth, blasted off with six...
On Monday evening, the night before the launch of the shuttle Discovery, Nasa's senior administrator, Mike Griffin, came in for dinner with his family. Over the years, the owners and regulars have shared Nasa's triumphs and tragedy. They have toasted success and mourned disasters. Last ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The billionaire who launched on his own SpaceX flight last year is headed back up, aiming for an even higher orbit and the chance to take part in a spacewalk. Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman announced Monday that he will make another private spacefl...
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EDT (1820 GMT) from Launch Pad 39A at KennedySpace Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The shuttle will carry sixastronauts, a new Russian research room, and a set of spare supplies to theInternational Space Station. "Everything is going quite well at Pad A," NASAtest director Steve ...