If the agency determines by Thursday night that the cause of the short is not serious, NASA can try to launch the shuttle Friday morning. On Wednesday, NASA scrubbed Wednesday and Thursday launch attempts because of the short in one of Atlantis' electricity-generatingfuel cells. The delays foll...
Dream Chaser's design allows it to land in as little as 11 to 15 hours. The spacecraft will land on a runway in Space Shuttle style at Kennedy’s Launch and Landing Facility. Once the demo flight is in the books, Sierra Space can begin commercial flights just in time for NASA to win...
"These delays seem like a bad thing and can erode confidence that you have in the system … but you really want to make sure that there are no questions in the back of your mind when you're saying, ‘OK, yes, this is ready to launch humans.’" WATCH: FOX NEWS REPORT ON NASA'...
NASA Postpones Cape Canaveral, Fla., Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery.Cabbage, Michael
Congress mandated that NASA create the Space Launch System and Orion in the2010 NASA Authorization Act. And without much competition, two main contractors who’d worked on Shuttle and Constellation got the jobs: Boeing would create the bulk of the SLS and Lockheed Martin would create Orion. “...
NASA's Space Shuttle Fleet Celebrates 25 Years of Spaceflight -- Robert Z. Pearlman,collectSPACE.com April 25 Contaminationa Likely Culprit in Failed Proton M Launch Themalfunctionof a Russian-built Proton rocket that left an Arab communications satellite inthe wrong orbit after launch was apparently...
A camera was mounted in the front of space shuttle Discovery's flight deck looking back at the astronauts during launch. This video shows the final minutes of the countdown and the ride to space with the live launch audio included. The movie shows what it would be like to launch on the...
Ground teams will use the GS1 to practice safely transporting the booster, which is approximately half the length of the Saturn V, from their production facility to Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at Cape Canaveral. It will also be used to test the fit and function of various pieces of ground ...
NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, has become such an expensive rocket, it could kill the United States' deep space exploration plans, says NASA Inspector General Paul Martin.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on March 02, 2023 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronaut Warren Hoburg, NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen and UAE (United Arab ...