For its first official mission, Falcon Heavy did not disappoint. Successfully landing all three boosters, this Falcon Heavy is more powerful than last year’s triple-booster rocket. This launch vehicle flew using SpaceX’s upgraded Block 5 configuration. Falcon heavy and Arabsat-6A launched…
Intl. Space Station, NASA, Science
Private aerospace and defense company Northrup Grumman’s Antares rocket launched its NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft Wednesday evening, April 17, and is on course to rendezvous with the International Space Station.
NASA, Human Spaceflight
Vice President Mike Pence announced a new goal for NASA: Put American astronauts back on the surface of the Moon by 2024. Pence went on during his address to emphasis that NASA’s aim to land humans on the Moon by 2028 was “just not good enough.” This comes less than two weeks after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told members at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket…
Human Spaceflight, NASA
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told members of the Senate Commerce Committee last week that the agency is considering launching its new Orion spacecraft aboard a commercial vehicle. “I think we should launch around the moon June of 2020, and I think it can be done. We need to consider, as an agency, all options to accomplish that objective,” Bridenstine said. Doing so will be a major undertaking…
Human Spaceflight, SpaceX, Intl. Space Station
SpaceX’s first spacecraft to fly with functional displays and navigation controls, seats, and a life-support system capable of sustaining astronauts and cargo to the space station and back, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean this morning, Friday March 8, at 8:45am EST, about 200 miles (~320 kilometers) east of Cape Canaveral.
