OTD in 1961, Virgil “Gus” Grissom became the 2nd American to reach space. Sixty years on, AmericaSpace remembers his drama-filled 15-minute flight. […]
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OTD in 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. Sixty years on, AmericaSpace looks back on his remarkable achievement. […] 
ULA’s Atlas V rocket stands poised to launch NASA’s next rover to Mars, Perseverance, from Cape Canaveral AFS at 7:50am EDT on July 30. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com United Launch Alliance (ULA) stands ready to deliver NASA’s long-awaited Perseverance rover to Mars on Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. […] 
OTD in 1960, NASA’s effort to someday put an American into orbit suffered a setback with the MA-1 launch failure. […] 
Seventy years ago today, Cape Canaveral shook to the roar of its very first rocket launch: the flight of Bumper 8. […] 
“Campfires” seen on the Sun by Solar Orbiter. They may help explain why the Sun’s atmosphere is 300 times hotter than its surface. Image Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL Solar Orbiter, a joint mission between NASA and ESA to study the Sun in unprecedented detail, has […] 
Unlocking the secrets of the Red Planet has proven a difficult endeavor over the last six decades. No less than five U.S. space missions have failed to reach it as Mars closely guards her secrets. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL It’s almost Mars Month and from 17 July through 11 August the next biannual “launch window” […] 
One of the few grainy images of Shepard, acquired during his brief moments of weightlessness. Photo Credit: NASA “A damn fine month,” actor Morgan Freeman’s character Ellis “Red” Redding remarked in the movie Shawshank Redemption and, indeed, for America’s space program, the month of May—newly dawned—has long been a historic one for off-the-planet U.S. […] 
The 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Canberra site in Australia. It is the only antenna that that communicate with Voyager 2 from the southern hemisphere, and will be undergoing crucial upgrades for 11 months beginning in March. Photo Credit: NASA/Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex With so many space missions currently exploring […] 
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, an international cooperative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, is seen here in final processing for launch at the Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida on Dec 16. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com We’ve been hearing a lot about NASA’s Parker Solar Probe […] |
 Next Launch OFT-2 on a Atlas V 421 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL Launch Date to be determined. Click here for more details...  NASA SLS : Artemis 1 mission launching late 2021 from Kennedy Space Center. Click HERE for more information.  |
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