At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, shuttle Discovery pauses for photos during its move called "rollover" from Orbiter Processing Facility-3 to the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Sept. 9, 2010. (Image credit: NASA/Ben Cooper [Full Story]) 2. It's the world's most-flo...
The last NASA vehicle to visit the Moon was the Lunar Roving Vehicle (popularly known as “Moon buggy”). It was used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. This manned vehicle used four large flexible wire mesh ...
and building and testing its myriad of components,” said JPL’s Henry Stone, the Psyche project manager. “The pressure is now on to complete assembly and test of the vehicle prior to shipment to Cape
“This is the proof that everybody’s done their job right. Not only those who have brought flight hardware into assembly, test, and launch operations [ATLO] but also the ATLO team in putting it all together,” said Randy Lindemann, theJPLengineer who oversaw Psyche’s dynamics testing,...
It’s a banner year for JWST at Goddard where the engineers and technicians are well into the final assembly and integration phase of the optical and science instrument portion of the colossal observatory that will revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos and our place it in. And they are...
some rest before the moment of truth came, took more than 24 hours. NASA halted it several times for minor equipment checks, and finally it was T-15 minutes to liftoff. Shepard was onboard, the pilots of the launch vehicle were ready, and all systems were go. Then the clouds moved in...
To get a sense of how much SLS might cost, let us assume the rocket makes its first flight on time in 2018.Optimistically, let us also assume that, over the next 20 years, the vehicle makes 20 successful flights, enabling the first crewed mission to the surface of Mars before the en...
The original vision of the space shuttle program was to develop a vehicle that would launch into space very frequently (several times a month) to deploy and repair satellites as required. The military was also an active participant in the development, and the shuttle's payload bay (which car...
It’s one thing to wish or fantasize about things, such as what would we be able to do if a hydrogen engine were the second stage of the Falcons or if Starship were a hydrogen vehicle. I would like to see that, too, because if it could be done for an economical ...