Volume 14; Issue 177 ~ 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
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Space station cargo resupply missions from U.S. soil resumed today with the successful return to flight of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft on the OA-4 mission. Delayed three days due to inclement weather at Cape Canaveral, Cygnus blasted...
Thursday, May 7, 2015
A loud whoosh, faint smoke trail and billowing parachutes marked a successful demonstration Wednesday by SpaceX of its Crew Dragon spacecraft abort system – an important step in NASA’s endeavor to rebuild America’s ability to launch crews...
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Two tons of supplies and research cargo are headed to the International Space Station today following the successful launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. After a one-day delay due to strong high-altitude winds,...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Launch of the Cygnus spacecraft was supposed to be the start of the third of Orbital Science Corporation’s eight NASA-contracted resupply missions to the International Space Station. Instead, Orbital and NASA are left picking up this pieces...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
U.S. astronauts once again will travel to and from the International Space Station from the United States on American spacecraft under groundbreaking contracts NASA announced Tuesday. The agency unveiled its selection of Boeing and SpaceX to transport...
Friday, June 6, 2014
NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday using a new laser communications instrument. Transmission of “Hello, World!” as a video message was the first 175-megabit communication for the...
Friday, June 6, 2014
With two companies now providing commercial cargo launch services for the International Space Station, NASA is issuing its final report on the now-complete Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program that laid the groundwork for those flights. The...
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station Sunday used a robotic arm to capture and attach the Cygnus supply spacecraft, which carried dozens of new science experiments from across the country and the world to the orbiting laboratory....
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Marking the beginning of regular supply runs to the International Space Station, Orbital Sciences Corporation sucessfully launched its Cygnus cargo craft aboard Antares rocket January 9 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Following...
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