Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, identified members of the eight-person accident investigation board charged with figuring out what destroyed the company’s Antares rocket and Cygnus space tug 15 seconds after liftoff Oct. 28 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.
SpaceX will get control of the Kennedy's launchpad 39A under a 20-year lease.
Boeing announced plans to convert a former space shuttle hangar at Kennedy Space Center in Florida into a maintenance facility for the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B unmanned spaceplane.
Now called the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility, it is in the midst of a two-part renovation by Space Florida.
The SpaceX chief executive accuses the two companies of trying to stymie SpaceX’s expansion plans.
SpaceX now says it would make Pad 39A available to NASA and other users if it is allowed to lease the facility.
The lawmakers join forces two weeks after Blue Origin protested NASA’s approach for leasing the launch complex at Kennedy Space Center.
Blue Origin filed a protest with the GAO, alleging “that there’s a problem with [NASA’s] solicitation that needs to be addressed.
NASA wants to demolish 46 structures covering some 17,000 square meters of property at the Kennedy and nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
CASIS announced Johnson’s hiring the same day NASA announced he had left the agency.
Award of a full-scale Space Fence development contract had been expected in 2012 or early 2013.
Pike’s visions of sand dunes, pathless wastes and sterile soils were reported, widely read and faithfully believed by geographers. The myth became innocently embellished by subsequent visitors.
We have never needed a serious, workable, bipartisan approach to space policy more than we do now.
At least one other company is competing against SpaceX to take over a decommissioned space shuttle launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center.
Florida is expanding its footprint at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, which is shedding excess shuttle-era facilities in an attempt to cut costs and remake itself into a hybrid spaceport supporting civilian government, military and commercial programs.
Space Shuttle Atlantis, which is set to go on public display June 29 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, was fully revealed April 26 after workers spent two days peeling off its protective shrink-wrap cover of the past five months.
Telesat said it expects to sign a contract for a satellite to replace the Telstar 12 spacecraft at 15 degrees west by August.
Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command the space shuttle, entered the ranks of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
PWR expects its business to level off or even increase modestly in the next five years.
Since the shuttle's retirement, U.S. human spaceflight program is continuously being reassesed.