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Apollo 10 rolls out in March 1969, becoming Pad 39B’s first occupant. Following the Apollo 10 launch in May 1969, four more Apollo missions would fly from Pad 39B, together with 53 Space Shuttle flights and most recently the Ares I-X test in October 2009. Photo Credit: NASA For five decades, Pad 39B at […] ATK and fellow Liberty launch system partner EADS Astrium announced that it will complete the Liberty system by adding a spacecraft to the Liberty system. Lockheed-Martin has signed on to assist in the development of the Liberty spacecraft. Photo Credit: ATK As NASA redirects its focus, energy and funding toward commercial, public-private efforts, […] [youtube_video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girw-mDyxyw[/youtube_video] Video courtesy of ATK In a recent video posted on YouTube by ATK, former shuttle astronauts Kent Rominger, Brian Duffy and Charlie Precourt sum up their feelings about the company’s new complete launch system in one sentence: “I’d fly on Liberty.” The Utah-based firm, in cooperation with EADS Astrium and […] NASA's crawler-transporters have been around since the Apollo era and are now being prepared for future missions. Photo Credit: Julian Leek/Blue Sawtooth Studios We sent veteran aerospace photojournalist Julian Leek to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a tour of one of the massive crawler-transporters that have been used by the space agency to […] So, which of the presidential candidates does this space supporter back? The answer might suprise you… Photo Credit: Jason Rhian Another election year, time for the “unbiased” media to give their endorsement to one candidate or another. After listening to both Presidential candidates’ comments and actions regarding space exploration, here is my “fair […] Given that the end of the space shuttle program was announced in 2004, it is well past the time when NASA should be flying astronauts on its own spacecraft. The fault, however, is not with NASA – but with the government. Image Credit: Jason Rhian The “Soyuz Epoch” continues to go badly. Shortly […] When will we have a clearly-defined objective to explore beyond low-Earth-orbit again? Image Credit: NASA “Politicians,” astronaut John Young once said, “are a strange bunch of critters.” In its first half-century of life, NASA propelled humanity further than ever before: into space, to the Moon and to the farthest reaches of the […] During yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, its Chairman Senator Jay Rockefeller asked the question how does human space exploration matter, not only today, but in the future? He also wanted to know how human space flight helps the human condition, sufficient to its budget, in America? Senator Rockerfeller doesn’t […] Great comic from Florida Today One of the many pieces of legislative compromise over the President’s proposed FY 2011 NASA Budget, which seeks to kill NASA’s Project Constellation and outsource future human spaceflight, is discussed in detail over at NASA Spaceflight in Ambitious Ares test flight plan proposed for HLV demonstrations. But even […] |
 Next Launch NROL-129 on a Minotaur IV rocket from Wallops Island, VA scheduled for: 15 Jul 20 at 13:00 GMT 15 Jul 20 at 9:00am Eastern 
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