Rookie NASA astronaut Zena Cardman and veteran space flier Stephanie Wilson were pulled from this flight after NASA opted to go with SpaceX to bring the stuck astronauts home. Promised a future space mission, both were at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, taking part in the launch live...
doi:10.4271/1999-01-5517Read the full-text online article and more details about New Space Race Florida in Hunt to Land America's Next-Generation Spaceship -- One That Could Replace the Shuttle.By LongPhilMerzerMartinIn Space (ISIS)," SAE Paper...
The launch of Artemis 2 is scheduled for 2023 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. An illustrated map of the Artemis 2 mission. (Image credit: NASA) Artemis 3 In Artemis’s third mission instalment, the goal has allowed humans to walk on the moon since 1972. In April 2021, ...
human factors (or how the astronauts interact with the systems), the spacecraft performance during "dynamic" events like launch or docking, and a thorough checkout of systems like communications, thrusters, and navigation.
This undated photo made available by SpaceX on Feb 6, 2019 shows the Dragon crew capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket at the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida where the Saturn Vs and space shuttles were launched. On Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, NASA and SpaceX announced the approval ...
It was the summer of 1948 and Sam was driving his family to Florida for a vacation. Coming through Richmond, VA, Sam saw a billboard announcing that WTVR –“The South’s First Television Station” was on the air. Sam figured that with a TV station here, Richmonders were going to ...
All four states are focused like a laser-guided missile on the importance of the aerospace industry to the northern Gulf Coast, and Florida statewide, especially as NASA ends the Space Shuttle program. Look for all four states in the Aerospace Alliance to compete tooth and nail — as one —...
Skye Sherman On our East Coast adventure, my husband and I opted for a Viewliner Roomette for the first 10-hour leg of our journey from our home in West Palm Beach to Savannah (we skipped the Florida stops on this trip since we’ve explored the state widely). Knowing we’d spend most...
Since the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian rockets to launch its astronauts to space. But the United States plans to have its own homemade spacecraft again soon. Called the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle, the new vehicle will be able to carry astronauts to ...
Apollo 11 lifted off from pad 39A, the rocket launch site that is hallowed ground at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and many NASA lunar landing and orbital missions began there. Nowadays it's used by SpaceX. "I can't believe we get to use this pad. An insane honor....