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SLS: NASA’s Next Big Thing

[/caption] NASA has officially unveiled the plan for their next large-scale rocket: the Space Launch System, or SLS, will provide…

10 years ago

ATK and Astrium’s Liberty Launcher Added to NASA’s Commercial Crewed Roster

[/caption]CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – Liberty has wings. That is to say that the launch vehicle proposed by Alliant Techsystems or…

10 years ago

ULA Inks Deal With NASA To Study Man-Rating Atlas V

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. -- NASA is looking for a few good rockets – that's right, plural. While it continues…

10 years ago

At Shuttle Program’s Twilight, Tears and Cheers as Triumphs and Tragedies are Remembered

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – With the shuttle program’s end less than three months away, NASA took time to honor the…

11 years ago

Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis

[/caption] The terribly destructive magnitude 9.0 earthquake which struck Japan on March 11, may have had another effect - Shortening…

11 years ago

KSC Launch Pad Worker Falls, Dies

[/caption] A worker at the space shuttle launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, pad 39A, fell to his death early…

11 years ago

Endeavour’s Final Rollout

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – The youngest orbiter in NASA’s shuttle fleet headed to Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center…

11 years ago

X-37B thunders off the pad on its way to orbit

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – Much has been made about the secretive nature of the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). Better known…

11 years ago

X-37B launch delayed due to weather

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – Weather delayed the launch of the second of the United States Air Force’s Orbital Test Vehicles…

11 years ago

Close Look at Cas A Reveals Bizarre ‘Superfluid’

[/caption] NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a bizarre, friction-free state of matter, at the…

11 years ago