A mission nearly 60 years in the making has launched on a historic flight to become the first spacecraft to “touch the surface of the Sun”. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, named after Dr. Eugene Parker, will unlock many of the mysteries still held by our solar system’s star. The probe launched atop at United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket on Sunday from the Cape’s SLC-37 at 03:31 Eastern.
Like most years, 2017 saw numerous scientific advancements and discoveries throughout the solar system and…
SpaceX has static fired their Falcon 9 rocket tasked with lofting the CRS-11/SPX-11 Dragon resupply…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 v1.1 has conducted a Static Fire – or Hot Fire – test…
SpaceX has launched the second Dragon mission of 2014, with a Falcon 9 v1.1 lofting…
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V has been selected as the rocket of choice by NASA’s…
NASA managers have approved Orbital’s Cygnus spacecraft for a second attempt to rendezvous and berth…
Teams on the ground are working through possible root causes into the temporary failure of…
A Russian Soyuz-U launch vehicle launched the M-07M/39P Progress resupply ship into orbit on Friday…
Shuttle engineers like to check, double check, and check again, whenever there’s a flight safety…
Atlantis is still waiting on the weather in Florida, with the preferred return to KSC…
The second launch attempt for STS-119 will take place on Sunday at 19:43pm local time,…
STS-126 marked Endeavour’s EOM-1 (End Of Mission minus one day) with checkouts of the orbiter’s…
Endeavour continues to close the distance between herself and the International Space Station (ISS), as Flight…
The Mission Management Team (MMT) have concluded their meeting on flight rationale for proceeding with…
Discovery will rollover on Sunday morning, following the completion of repair efforts on her right…
The final spacewalk of STS-118 has come to a successful conclusion, with a shortened EVA-4…
Issues with the retraction of Atlantis’ landing gear (hydraulics), which stalled operations to mate Atlantis…
The weather in Florida failed to improve for both landing opportunities at the Kennedy Space…
After 191 days onboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Suni Williams gave a…
