![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.
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.
![Commentary | The Future of NASA in a Post-shuttle World]()
We have never needed a serious, workable, bipartisan approach to space policy more than we do now.
![Blue Origin Bids for Shuttle Launch Pad]()
At least one other company is competing against SpaceX to take over a decommissioned space shuttle launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center.
![NASA Picks Space Florida To Take Over Shuttle Runway]()
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.
