55 years ago, Project Gemini & America’s drive to the Moon was almost halted in its tracks. This weekend, AmericaSpace remembers the sacrifice of Elliot See & Charlie Bassett. […]
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Illustration depicting water molecules trapped in lunar soil, along with SOFIA onboard a modified Boeing 747SP jetliner. Image Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutterit The Moon is generally thought of as a very dry place, with no surface water or even water vapor clouds. Nothing but arid, dusty regolith and rocks. That’s true for the most part, […] 
Al Worden waves to ground personnel at Patrick Air Force Base prior to taking off on a training flight in a T-38 aircraft in July 1971. Photo Credit: The Project Apollo Archive/NASA Only four years before the first woman and the next man are due to set foot on the surface of the Moon, […] 
As America honors Black History Month through February, Sunday’s scheduled sunset launch of the next Northrop Grumman Corp. Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) appropriately memorializes Robert H. Lawrence, the U.S. Air Force major who became the first African-American to be selected for astronaut candidate training and might—had the hands of fate […] 
Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule from the recent Orbital Flight Test, inside the company’s C3PF processing facility at Kennedy Space Center on Jan 15, 2020, fresh back from New Mexico where the spacecraft landed on Dec 22, 2019. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule which recently flew the Orbital Flight Test […] 
Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA/Jude Guidry NASA is full steam ahead with the Space Launch System, as years […] 
NASA astronauts Nick Hague (center) Christina Koch (left) and Drew Morgan (right), currently serving with the Expedition 60 crew on the International Space Station, welcome SpaceX Dragon CRS-18 to the orbiting outpost on 27 July 2019. Photo Credit: NASA SpaceX successfully delivered their 18th resupply mission to the International Space Station today, bringing with […] 
An Orion test article launching atop a refurbished Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile solid rocket motor on the Ascent Abort-2 flight test, 2 July 2019 from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace.com The sun wasn’t the only spectacular sight seen rising over Florida’s ‘Space […] 
The SpaceX Crew Dragon on ‘Demo-1’ docking to the station’s international docking adapter, which is attached to the forward end of the Harmony module. Credit: NASA TV Early this morning, after making 18 orbits of the Earth and 27 hours after launch, the first SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived and docked to the International […] 
Atlantis roars to orbit on the morning of 2 December 1988, 30 years ago today. Photo Credit: NASA Thirty years ago, at 9:30 a.m. EST on 2 December 1988, Atlantis rocketed into crystal-blue Florida skies to begin the second shuttle mission in the wake of the Challenger tragedy. Two months earlier, her sister […] |
 Next Launch Crew 2 on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 22 Apr 21 at 10:11 GMT 22 Apr 21 at 6:11am Eastern 
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