NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden will review the findings of his “special team” – which he set up to evaluate all Heavy Lift alternatives to the current plan – on Friday. Pre-empting the overview, Exploration Project officials all-but ruled out the Sidemount HLV, whilst noting a couple of In-line heavy lifters – one of which appears to be a DIRECT Jupiter launch vehicle – made it through to the Bolden meeting.
Atlantis is enjoying a relatively smooth pad flow, with only three issues being worked, as…
Atlantis is preparing to mate with her External Tank (ET-133) and twin Solid Rocket Boosters…
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne engineers have found the application of “tacky tape” – used to…
A failure investigation team has been created for Endeavour’s Number One Space Shuttle Main Engine…
Meetings are taking place through Friday to work on risk acceptance for two LO2 Ice…
Engineers have found the root cause of the Aerosurface Servoamplifer (ASA) channel 1 failure on…
Atlantis has returned to Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-1) in preparation for her flow towards the…
Following her 13 day mission in space on STS-119, Discovery is being deserviced inside her…
An assessment into the holddown post failure on STS-126’s launch has found that debris that…
Constellation engineers are carrying out an evaluation process into a potential option of going back…
Space shuttle Endeavour has been escorted on a mini tour of the Kennedy Space Center…
Shuttle managers are “likely” to slip STS-125’s launch date to October 10 or 11, after…
With Discovery back home, all three Orbiter Processing Facilities (OPFs) at the Kennedy Space Center…
NASA has drawn up the retirement plan for Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), which will…
Endeavour’s opening Thermal Protection System (TPS) assessment shows a major reduction in the amount of…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has noted that the preliminary assessment of the second Falcon I…
While a routine part of their work, NASA’s Stennis Space Center has returned to testing…
Russia’s crucial launch infrastructure at Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Site 31/6 has been fully repaired following a…
Following NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman’s stark assessment of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner program’s troubled history—pinning…
