Volume 14; Issue 263 ~ Zero-G News (ISSN 2333-7257) ~ A Publication Of Ares Institute, Inc.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Nearly five years after the final space shuttle mission blasted off and forty four years since the last humans left Earth to set foot on the Moon, Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A was again the focus of a historic event when the first SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off today on its first launch from
Thursday, January 26, 2017
On Jan. 26, 2017, Kennedy Space Center employees and guests paid their respects to astronauts who have perished in the conquest of space. The annual Kennedy Day of Remembrance activities included a ceremony in the Center for...
Sunday, November 10, 2013
The Mercury Monument stands outside of Complex 14 was dedicated on this day 49 years ago. The monument shows the number 7 (in honor of the “Original Seven” astronauts) inside of the astronomical symbol for the planet...
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Former NASA astronaut Gordon Fullerton passed away this week. In memory of the death of a great astronaut, here is our photo and video history collection for STS-3, the third flight of space shuttle Columbia. Fullerton served...
Saturday, August 24, 2013
It’s been 20 years since the remarkable DC-X Delta Clipper Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) test vehicle made its first flight. Many people still believe DC-X should have been the chosen vehicle for NASA’s X-33 RLV program but that Lockheed...
Monday, July 15, 2013
The first international partnership in space wasn’t the International Space Station. It wasn’t even the Shuttle-Mir series of missions. It was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international human spaceflight. On July 15, 1975, an Apollo spacecraft...
Sunday, July 7, 2013
MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome to the campus of George Washington University in downtown Washington, D.C., for what promises to be a very remarkable afternoon. My name is John Logsdon. I am the director of the Space Policy...
Monday, May 27, 2013
The twin launch gantries that mark Space Launch Complex 17 bridge the Space Age from the early days when small rockets achieving modest successes made headlines to the modern era of large boosters regularly lofting probes and...
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