Launching a Shuttle: NASA Countdown to BlastoffSteven Leckart
NASA is planning a permanent return to the moon, which first means building a supply chain from Earth to a lunar outpost called Gateway. The countdown has started: NASA is preparing to blast off to the moon again, half a century since it last went there. It has fired up its Artemis ...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, due to blast off early Saturday carrying a Crew Dragon capsule in a test that will pave the way for the first manned US space mission in almost a decade NASA and SpaceX counted down Saturday to the launch of a new astronaut capsule on a week-long trip to t...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, due to blast off early Saturday carrying a Crew Dragon capsule in a test that will pave the way for the first manned US space mission in almost a decade NASA and SpaceX counted down Saturday to the launch of a new astronaut capsule on a week-long trip to t...
After an all-day meeting to go over technical details, open issues, the weather and a variety of other factors, the launch team was cleared to press ahead toward the start of a 46-hour 10-minute countdown beginning at 10:23 a.m. ET Saturday, setting the stage for blastoff at 8:33...
— a mission to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule on a 42-day mission beyond the moon and back. But after working through a weather delay, a brief hydrogen leak, trouble cooling one of the rocket's four main engines and problems with a balky valve, managers called off the countdown....
James Merle Thomas and Mikael Jorgensen—who call their musical project Quindar—weren’t interested in rewritingThe Right Stuffor remakingApollo 13.They wanted to explore the early decades of NASA and the pre-Shuttle space program, but from an oblique angle. “Countdown, blastoff—...
James Merle Thomas and Mikael Jorgensen—who call their musical project Quindar—weren’t interested in rewritingThe Right Stuffor remakingApollo 13.They wanted to explore the early decades of NASA and the pre-Shuttle space program, but from an oblique angle. “Countdown, blastoff—that s...
T-minus 31 seconds: At this moment in the countdown, if there are no technical issues, the "go" command will be given for "auto sequence start," which means that the Ground Launch Sequencer will hand off primary control of the countdown to the shuttle's onboard computers. ...
The countdown clock is ticking relentlessly and in less than nine months time, NASA’s InSight Mars lander isslated to blastoff in March 2016. InSight, which stands for Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a stationary lander. It...