SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload of the Dragon cargo craft, on the company’s third commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. […]
The International Space Station Program and SpaceX have selected Friday, April 18 for the next launch attempt for the Falcon 9 rocket to send the Dragon cargo craft on the company’s third commercial resupply mission to the space station. […]
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone”, the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet and the discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our sun. […]
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a young stellar system that “blinks” every 93 days, called YLW 16A, the system likely consists of three developing stars, two of which are surrounded by a disk of material left over from the star-formation process. […]
A total lunar eclipse will begin early on the morning of April 15 at approximately 2 a.m. […]
NASA announced today that Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed a 20-year lease to the rights to KSC’s historic Launch Complex 39A. […]
International Space Station Program officials and representatives of SpaceX decided Saturday to continue preparations for the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon cargo craft to the space station Monday from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., despite the failure Friday of a backup computer component that provides redundancy for commanding the Mobile Transporter rail car on the truss of the station. […]
A metamorphosis is taking place inside Firing Room 4 (FR4) in the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO) Program is overseeing the work to create a new firing room as part of NASA’s effort to transform Kennedy into a multi-user spaceport. […]
TrepHub, a downtown Melbourne technology startup incubator, will be an International Space Apps Challenge 2014 host location April 12-13. […]
The Atlas V rockets scheduled to blast off tomorrow from the Cape Canaveral Air force Station has been scrubbed as a result of a “range instrumentation outage,” according to the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing. […]
Fifty-five years ago today, on April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7. […]
n June 2013, NASA announced its 21st class of astronauts, eight highly skilled military aviators and researchers who will be part of the agency’s missions beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations in the solar system. […]
