NASA Postpones Cape Canaveral, Fla., Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery.Cabbage, Michael
After the shuttle Columbia was lost on its return to Earth in 2003, investigators said its seven astronauts could have been saved if NASA had been ready. The investigation board recommended that NASA keep a second shuttle at the ready at every launch after that. If history repeated itself ...
On January 28th, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, and then exploded exactly 73 seconds later -- taking with it the lives of all seven astronauts on board, including the first citizen and teacher to fly into space, Christa McAuliffe. ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts who will end a nine-year launch drought for NASA arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, exactly one week before their historic SpaceX flight. It will be the first time a private company, rather than a national government, sends astrona...
NASA and SpaceX cleared their Crew-9 astronaut flight to the International Space Station for launch, a Sept. 28 liftoff that will help return two Boeing Starliner astronauts home.
In 2010, after some intense lobbying by the aerospace industry, Congress mandated that NASA create the Space Launch System and Orion in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act. And without much competition, two main contractors who’d worked on Shuttle and Constellation got the jobs: Boeing would create...
Recommended Videos Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched from the famous Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, at 12:22 p.m. PT on Saturday, May 30, with the Crew Dragon capsule set atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Once the rocket’s first stage was no longer...
CAPECANAVERAL - Destined to resume construction of the International SpaceStation, the Atlantis astronauts this week face a key pre-launch test - apractice countdown at Kennedy Space Center. With about150 to 200 engineers operating computer consoles in the NASA Launch ControlCenter, shuttle skipper ...
Wilmore and Williams are the first to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner on an Atlas V rocket. Liftoff is scheduled for 10:34 p.m. Monday, May 6, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The astronauts will spend about a week at the orbiting laborat...
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. ...