![Antares Investigation Board Includes Former NASA Shuttle Program Manager]()
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.
![NASA Officially Leases Old Shuttle Launch Pad to SpaceX]()
SpaceX will get control of the Kennedy's launchpad 39A under a 20-year lease.
![Former Shuttle Hangar Will Host X-37B Spaceplane]()
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.
![Boeing Finalizes Lease of Former Shuttle Hangar for CST-100 Construction]()
Now called the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility, it is in the midst of a two-part renovation by Space Florida.
![Musk Calls Out Blue Origin, ULA for ‘Phony Blocking Tactic’ on Shuttle Pad Lease]()
The SpaceX chief executive accuses the two companies of trying to stymie SpaceX’s expansion plans.
![SpaceX Changes Tune on Lease Terms for Shuttle Pad]()
SpaceX now says it would make Pad 39A available to NASA and other users if it is allowed to lease the facility.
![Florida’s Congressional Delegation Backs NASA’s Plan to Lease Old Shuttle Pad]()
The lawmakers join forces two weeks after Blue Origin protested NASA’s approach for leasing the launch complex at Kennedy Space Center.
![Blue Origin Files Formal Protest of Proposed Shuttle Pad Lease]()
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.
![Former Shuttle Pilot Johnson To Lead CASIS]()
CASIS announced Johnson’s hiring the same day NASA announced he had left the agency.
