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Imminent Impact of Deadly Cat 4 Hurricane Matthew Forces Closure of Kennedy Space Center and Mass Coastal Evacuations

The imminent impact of the already deadly Category 4 Hurricane Matthew along the Florida Space Coast tonight, Thursday, October 6,…

8 years ago

NASA’s First SLS Mars Rocket Fuel Tank Completes Welding

The first of the massive fuel tanks that will fly on the maiden launch of NASA’s SLS mega rocket in…

8 years ago

OSIRIS-REx Blasts off on 7 Year Sampling Trek to Asteroid Bennu and Back

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA’s OSIRIS-REx hi tech robotic explorer blasted off this evening in spectacular fashion from the…

8 years ago

Boeing Starts Assembly of 1st Flightworthy Starliner Crew Taxi Vehicle at Kennedy Spaceport

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The next generation of America’s human spaceships is rapidly taking shape and “making fantastic progress”…

8 years ago

America’s First Asteroid Sampling Mission OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Florida Launch Base

America’s first ever mission designed to retrieve samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth -…

8 years ago

NASA’s Orion EM-1 Crew Module Passes Critical Pressure Tests

The next Orion crew module in line to launch to space on NASA’s Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) has passed a…

8 years ago

2 By Sea, 1 By Land, 3rd Recovered Booster Joins SpaceX Siblings: Up Close Gallery

Rolling rolling rolling! Yee-haw! 2 By Sea, 1 By Land. The 3rd recovered Falcon 9 booster has joined her siblings…

8 years ago

1st Boeing Starliner Hull Assembled as 1st Crew Flight Delays to 2018

As completion nears for the prototype of Boeing’s first Starliner astronaut taxi, the firm announced a slip into 2018 for…

8 years ago

SpaceX Announces Plan to Launch Private Dragon Mission to Mars in 2018

SpaceX announced plans today, April 27, for the first ever private mission to Mars which involves sending an uncrewed version…

8 years ago

Recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Moves Back to KSC for Eventual Reflight

The recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster that successfully carried out history’s first upright touchdown from a just flown…

8 years ago