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NASA Apollo 6 Paved America’s Pathway to the Moon 50 years ago
ATLANTA — As America recalls the golden anniversary of mankind’s first voyage to the moon this December, the lesser known flight of Apollo 6 cleared a major hurdle for NASA as it paved the country’s pathway toward lunar orbit. Designed as a test flight article and flew unmanned, the flight of Apollo 6 fifty years ago tested […] More
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NASA InSight Lander to Explore the Inner Space of Mars
NASA’s newest discovery mission InSight will launch this spring to begin the first extensive exploration of the Red Planet’s internal structure. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport, or InSight, is scheduled to lift-off for the Red Planet and into a predawn sky on May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and land […] More
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Challenger’s Final Flight Began an Enduring Mission of Inspiration
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — As the space shuttle Challenger rose into the cold blue sky over America’s Space Coast, excitement for the first teacher to travel into space turned to stunned disbelief as the vehicle suddenly broke apart – a crew lost – in an event which changed both NASA and the nation thirty-two years ago on […] More
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NORAD, Military To Assist Santa On His Christmas Voyage
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The warmth of a bright red glow traveling across the evening sky will allow the military to assist Santa Claus with his special delivery of gifts across North America on Christmas Eve. Led by Rudolph and eight reindeer, Santa Claus is expected to arrive over the east coast of the United States […] More
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What A Magnificent Craft She Was: The Space Shuttle On Approach
It’s hard to believe that we are approaching 7 years since America launched its own human-carrying craft into space. The last Space Shuttle mission landed on July 21, 2011. Since that date, Americans must rely on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station. Getting there isn’t cheap. The Russians charge almost $60M per seat! […] More
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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Provides the Full Spaceflight Experience
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Exploring space with new simulators and witnessing the thundering launch of a rocket into Earth orbit and beyond are a few of the highlights designed to educate and excite the public at the Kennedy Space Center’s Visitor Complex. As families look toward America’s Space Coast for its sugar beaches and great […] More
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F-18s Help Develop Flight Control System for New Deep Space Rocket
For the last several years work has been underway to develop NASA’s replacement launch vehicle for the agency’s retired space shuttle fleet, the Space Launch System (SLS for short). The mammoth rocket will be the most powerful and capable heavy-lift launch vehicle ever designed, and NASA F/A-18 Hornet research jets have played a critical role […] More
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VIDEO: Come Onboard For The Last Power-Up of a Space Shuttle
In 2011, NASA put America’s space shuttle fleet to rest. With the International Space Station completed, and two crews on two shuttles lost over the course of the 30-year program, the time had come to close the shuttle chapter and look ahead at the dawn of a new era. Each of NASA’s three remaining orbiters […] More
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NASA Pool Prepares Astronauts for Upcoming Space Station Spacewalks
HOUSTON — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to perform three consecutive spacewalks in October to upgrade and repair critical equipment outside the orbiting laboratory. NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei will venture outside through the Quest airlock on Thursday, Oct. 5, for the first spacewalk beginning at 8:10 a.m. EDT. […] More
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Lockheed Wants to Put a Base Camp in Orbit Around Mars, Complete With Lander
Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, officials with Lockheed Martin today revealed their plans for what they believe is a sound, safe and compelling mission architecture to help NASA get humans to Mars within a decade, using a concept centered around an orbiting outpost they call the Mars Base Camp. “Sending humans […] More
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Relive Endeavour’s 747 Piggyback Tour of CA, 5 Years Ago Today
On this day five years ago, the space shuttle Endeavour made her final flight; a ferry flight and tour of southern CA on the back of NASA’s modified 747 shuttle carrier aircraft (SCA) before landing one last time, destined as a museum piece for the California Science Center (CSC). The four-hour, 34-minute flight began at […] More
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Air Force X-37B space shuttle to launch Thursday from Kennedy Space Center
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The U.S. Air Force officially announced on Thursday the firm launch date for the next mission of the unmanned military research space shuttle scheduled to make its first flight riding a top a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Air Force X-37B space plane is scheduled to lift-off from the Kennedy Space […] More
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