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.