Spaceport News is a biweekly NASA publication that serves Kennedy Space Center civil service and contractor employees. The publication covers a variety of topics, primarily related to Kennedy’s business of processing, launching and landing spacecraft and payloads for Earth orbit and deep space.
In this issue: an optical communications technology demonstration experiment, a test of the prototype spacecraft called Dream … Read the rest of this article
Spaceport News is a biweekly NASA publication that serves Kennedy Space Center civil service and contractor employees. The publication covers a variety of topics, primarily related to Kennedy’s business of processing, launching and landing spacecraft and payloads for Earth orbit and deep space.
In this issue: MAVEN arrives at Kennedy on its way to Mars; astronauts reminisce at Skylab’s 40th … Read the rest of this article
Check out this infographic about NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) – click the image for a larger view.
Now that the Space Shuttle program is over, NASA is remodeling the VAB where they were built. It’s a huge building, one of the largest in the world. How huge? Here’s some info to help put it into perspective:
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Workers moved the Orion ground test vehicle (GTA) from the Operations and Checkout Building to the Launch Equipment Test Facility on May 13. Lockheed Martin workers uncovered the GTA to prepare it for the second series of pyrotechnic bolt tests at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: Jim Grossman
After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at noon EDT (9 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, beginning its mission to unveil secrets of buried black holes and other exotic objects.
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NuSTAR has a 30-foot mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). …
A full-scale test version of the Orion spacecraft is one of several NASA-sponsored exhibits that will appear alongside space shuttle Discovery at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va.
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This artist’s rendering represents the crew module of the Orion crew exploration vehicle with the outer skin removed revealing the …
Thus was history made: Space Shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station on Tuesday and made its last return to Earth today. The Shuttle era is now over and the door is open to the next generation of space vehicles.
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Wrapping up 30 years of unmatched achievements and blazing a trail for the next era of U.S. human spaceflight, NASA’s storied Space shuttle Program came to a “wheels stop” on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 at the conclusion of its 135th mission.
shuttle Atlantis and its four-astronaut crew glided home for the final time, ending a 13-day journey of more than … Read the rest of this article
NASA and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will host a news conference at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 22 to announce the selected landing site for the agency’s latest Mars rover. The event will be in the museum’s Moving Beyond Earth Gallery. NASA Television and the agency’s Web site will provide live coverage of the event.
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Space shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 11:29 a.m. EDT Friday. STS-135 is the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program that will end the multi-purpose spaceplane programme’s three-decade era of human spaceflight.
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On 8 July 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted …
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