The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a record-setting launch schedule for 1984---10 space shuttle flights (see Table 1), 10 satellite deployments from the space shuttle in orbit and 12 unmanned missions using expendable launch vehicles. Also scheduled is the launch on ...
I wanted an easier way to keep track of the television schedule for Space Shuttle missions. Prior to my seeing a need for this application, I manually entered key events, such as launch and landing, and the flight day highlights into my calendar in Outlook....
7 launch of the shuttleAtlantis and delay another flight to mid-March as engineers work to replace anelectrical connector on the orbiter?s fuel tank. The launchtarget will allow time to install and test the new connector and avoidschedule conflicts with other spacecraft that, like Atlantis, ...
The schedule is tight. If foul weather delays any work on Endeavour or itslaunch pad by even a few hours, the shuttle may not be ready to launch onWednesday. If a delay occurs soon enough, such as overnight tonight or earlyMonday, NASA could swap launch days with the moon mission and...
The Cygnus spacecraft set for launch Thursday is named the S.S. Kalpana Chawla in honor of one of the astronauts who died on the space shuttle Columbia tragedy in 2003. Liftoff on top of a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops is scheduled for...
Her husband, Bob Behnken, was one of two NASA astronauts on the first manned Crew Dragon launch, a trial flight last August marking NASA's first human orbital mission from U.S. soil in nine years, following the end of the space shuttle program in 2011. (Reporting...
Two views of the Space Launch System heavy-lift moon rocket being hauled to launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.NASA Cobbled together from left-over space shuttle components, a new core stage and a modified upper stage borrowed from another rocket,the SLS rocketstands 322 feet tall and...
We were at Kennedy from about 9am to 6pm, We were able to tour the Atlantis exhibit (including the shuttle launch experience, which is cool and not nearly as intense as most theme park rides...don't be afraid to try it!), see an IMAX movie, c...
NASA has grounded its fleet of three space shuttles after discovering a fuel leak on Atlantis similar to that which grounded the Columbus shuttle in May. Officials at NASA say that if repairs to the fuel pipes take more than a month then at least one of
“They scrubbed six times on his launch. And on one of my launches, we scrubbed six times.” Selected as an astronaut in 1987, Bowersox flew five times on the space shuttle and once on a Roscosmos Soyuz, logging more than 211 days in space. Bowersox said Williams and Wilmore ...