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CNN - Behind the scenes at Kennedy Space Center (2009-03-11)Behind the scenes at Kennedy Space Center Going behind the scenes at Kennedy Space Center is like visiting another planet. The employees working on the shuttle fleet speak their own language -- a ... [Read More]
NASA's Ares I-X Motors Arrive (2009-03-20)A train hauling rocket motors for NASA's Ares I-X mission chugged in to Kennedy Space Center today, marking a key milestone for the first in a series of test flights aimed at qualifying Ares 1 ... [Read More]
Preps Continue Toward a Targeted Feb. 7 Launch (2010-01-14)Preps Continue Toward a Targeted Feb. 7 Launch Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:28:37 AM CST At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers at Launch Pad 39A began loading fuel into space shuttle Endeavour's ... [Read More]
Guenter Wendt, 85, 'Pad Leader' for NASA's moon missions, dies (2010-05-03)May 3, 2010 — Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA's manned space program who was the last man the Apollo astronauts saw before launching to the moon, died at his home in Merritt ... [Read More]
I've been selected to attend the launch of STS-133 at the Kennedy Space Center Press Viewing Area!!! (2010-09-12)The Bayourat has been selected to view the launch of space shuttle Discovery (STS-133) from the press viewing area at the Kennedy Space Center just 3 miles from the launch pad. I was chosen from a ... [Read More]
Robonaut 2b Is Ready To Launch On Discovery STS-133 (2010-10-22)Everyone should know by now that I am participating in a NASA TweetUp from the Press Area of the Kennedy Space Center for the Launch of Discovery on STS-133. What you may not know is that Discovery ... [Read More]
Gaseous Hydrogen Leak Repairs Completed. Testing To Follow. (2010-11-18)At NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, technicians are completing repairs on space shuttle Discovery's ground umbilical carrier plate (GUCP). On Nov. 17, the hydrogen vent line was ... [Read More]
Ares 1 To Be Reborn As The Liberty Rocket (2011-02-08)NASA's scrapped Ares I rocket may see new life as part of a new private launch vehicle to provide commercial flights to space for satellites, cargo – and maybe even people, the companies proposing ... [Read More]
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Next Generation J-2X Upper-Stage Engine (2011-07-21)CANOGA PARK, Calif., July 20, 2011 ? Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a chill test and 1.9 second ignition test of NASA?s J-2X engine at John C. Stennis Space Center, Miss. ... [Read More]
50 years after John Glenn's flight, The US Has To Buy Rides To Space (2012-02-21)Reuters/Cape Canaveral, Florida Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, Nasa no longer has the ability to fly astronauts in space, a decision Glenn lays squarely on ... [Read More]
X-37B Prepares For Return To Orbit (2012-09-27)The highly mysterious X-37B OTV-3 (Orbital Test Vehicle) – which is, essentially, a drone boosted into orbital spaceflight – is being prepared for its third top secret space flight in ... [Read More]
We Are Going: Artemis I Launches (2022-11-17)Our Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test , Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex ... [Read More]