NASA’s retired space shuttle Atlantis, the last orbiter to fly, is unveiled to the general public at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The $100 million exhibit showcases the orbiter as it looked while on-orbit, tilted at 43.21 degrees with her payload bay doors open. A giant screen behind Atlantis depicts the motion […]
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Antares Roars In Successful Debut Launch
Rising up from a blast of fire and steam, Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket roared off its Virignia launch pad this evening to begin successful inaugural mission. Liftoff occurred on Sunday, April 21 at 5:00 p.m. EDT from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the NASA’s’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It marked the […]
NASA’s Voyager-1 Spacecraft Has NOT Left The Solar System, Yet
Reports from various news agencies today have been stating NASA’s Voyager-1 spacecraft as having left the solar system. Although some in the astronomy community feel that Voyager 1 is in fact now traversing interstellar space, NASA and officials at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the same folks who built the spacecraft and continue […]
SpaceX Overcomes Glitch, Dragon Safely On Way To ISS
CAPE CANAVERAL, AFS – After overcoming a nerve-wracking crisis after successfully launching their fifth Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX appears to have salvaged the latest commercial International Space Station resupply mission. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 occurred on time at 10:10 a.m. EST, during an instantaneous launch window, under cloudy skies but otherwise perfect weather. […]
NASA Successfully Launches TDRS-K Communication Satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle blasted into space Wednesday night on the first launch from Cape Canaveral in 2013. After lifting off on time at 8:48 .m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41, the Atlas succesfuly delivered to orbit the first NASA’s three next-generation Tracking and Data […]
NASA Releases GLORY TAURUS XL Launch Failure Report Summary
NASA has released a summary report on findings from a panel that investigated the unsuccessful 2011 launch of the agency’s Glory spacecraft.
Orbital Sciences Antares Engines Roar On The Launch Pad
Orbital Sciences Antares Rocket Hot Fire Static Test NASA commercial partner Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Va., successfully conducted an engine test of its Antares rocket Friday at the nation’s newest launch pad.
NASA Launches Earth-observing Lansdsat
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