Keith’s note:According to Blue Origin:“New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today’s NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective. New Glenn’s seven BE-4 engines ignited on January 16, 2025, at 2:03 a.m. EST (0703 UTC) from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Spa...
2 private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth’s dusty sidekick. ...
He expected that “testing will be complete and hardware at the Cape (Canaveral) by the end of December.” The top executive for Boeing’s rival Starliner program, John Mulholland, said on Wednesday that its own key test of an abort system was slated for Nov. 4, while its unpiloted orbit...
Once in the great outdoors, it will embark on an 11-hour journey to its primary launchpad in Cape Canaveral, where it will undergo testing ahead of its debut flight beyond the Moon, set to occur sometime this year. It’s a major milestone that could herald the beginning of NASA’s ...
A pre-production Lunar Module was supposed to have been flown aboard Apollo 4, but when the vehicle arrived at Cape Canaveral, NASA engineers discovered hundreds of design and construction flaws. NASA was unwilling to delay its launch schedule, and so Apollo 4 flew without a Lunar Module. The...
NASA-SpaceX Launch of Next International Space Station Crew Pushed to April 22 More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy S...
How the space program launched the Florida we know today More than 50 years ago, the first of 12 astronauts walked on the moon. Florida launched all of them, and they in turn helped launch what we currently know as Florida. The president's announcement said, in 1986 Nelson flew on the ...
The Lucy mission is scheduled to launch on Saturday at 5:34 am ET (09:34 UTC) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. An Atlas V rocket carrying the 1.5-ton spacecraft rolled to the launch pad on Thursday in advance of the launch attempt. The weather looks fine Saturd...
NASA's Artemis 1 Space Launch System moon rocket stands atop Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida during a fueling test on April 3, 2022.(Image credit: NASA Kennedy Space Center) It's fueling day for NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket as the agency nears the...
NASA administrator: "Today's launch is a milestone achievement" From CNN's Ashley Strickland NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, right, watches the launch of Boeing Starliner at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday. Joel Kowsky/NASA NASA Administrator Bill Nelson offered his congratulations on the ...