SpaceX Aims for Friday Sunset Launch After Boats and Winds Delay Falcon 9 Liftoff and Landing Attempt - Live Webcast

By ken-kremer - March 04, 2016 01:38 AM UTC | Space Exploration
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Alas SpaceX is now targeting Friday March 4 for the 5th attempt to launch their upgraded Falcon 9 carrying the powerful SES-9 commercial telecommunications satellite, following another pair of launch scrubs earlier this week due to errant boats and strong winds aloft.
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NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns from a Historic Year in Space on Station

By ken-kremer - March 02, 2016 08:09 AM UTC | Space Exploration
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian cohort Mikhail Kornienko successful returned to Earth late Tuesday night (March 1), after spending nearly a year in space aboard the space station on a mission to gauge the limits of human endurance in microgravity and blaze a path forward to eventual human expeditions to the Red Planet.
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