Capping off a highly successful year for the Space Shuttle Program, the STS-129 flight of Atlantis last month has undergone its final, official post-flight assessment: the all-important In-Flight Anomaly (IFA) review. In all, STS-129 was a clean flight, particularly for the vehicle’s Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) and Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs).
Despite apparently failing to be short listed for President Obama’s upcoming decision on the forward…
A floodlit Ares I-X departed the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in the early hours of…
The Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) has successfully carried out a pad abort test launch…
The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) is undergoing further reductions in its capability – including the elimination…
STS-127 has been scrubbed for the second time due to another leak at the Ground Umbilical…
NASA’s Constellation Program (CxP) will conduct a “Content and Schedule” summit meeting in the next…
STS-119’s opening launch attempt has been scrubbed until Sunday, March 15,, following a LH2 leak during…
STS-119 is one day away from the opening launch attempt, with only a few issues of…
Lockheed Martin have recommended a switch of a 8Mbs Phased array on its Communications and…
US lawmakers have agreed on a stimulus package that includes just over $1 billion in…
NASA senior managers will meet on Tuesday for the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) “Agency”…
Space shuttle Endeavour has launched on what is the heaviest logistics flight to the International…
The requirement to carry out an additional Design Analysis Cycle (DAC) has already delayed Orion’s…
Lockheed Martin’s design efforts on the Orion vehicle are being hindered by Ares I driven…
With Atlantis now undergoing mating operations with her External Tank for the STS-125 flagship mission…
Two months after Constellation informed the workforce of an internal slip to opening element of…
The Ares V core stage team is currently evaluating a configuration change to the location…
The design work on the Ares I Emergency Escape System (EES) Rollercoaster is starting to…
Captain Eugene (Gene) Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, has called for…
