Huge Prospects for Science and Humans to Mars: Conversation With Hubble Astronaut/NASA Science Chief John Grunsfeld (Part 2)

By Ken Kremer, on January 7th, 2015

Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-125 and the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope on May 11, 2009, from Launch Complex-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — “A great path” lies ahead for “science and launching humans to Mars,” […]

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Delta II Returns to Flight With Dazzling OCO-2 Launch

By Ben Evans, on July 2nd, 2014

With the glow of its RS-27A first-stage engine and trio of Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) piercing the gloom and murk, the first Delta II in almost three years takes flight from a foggy Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Photo Credit: Robert C. Fisher/AmericaSpace

More than five years since its predecessor was lost in […]

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Delta II Primed for Return to Flight OCO-2 Mission on Tuesday

By Ben Evans, on June 29th, 2014

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 will form part of the “Afternoon” Constellation (or “A-Train”) of U.S.- and French-provided global monitoring satellites. Image Credit: NASA

For the first time in almost three years, the thunderous roar of a Delta II booster will rattle the mountainous landscape of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday, […]

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NASA Hosts Earth Science Social Media Event

By Press Release, on October 30th, 2013

This view of Earth comes from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard the Terra satellite.Photo Credit: NASA

One-hundred people from 22 U.S. states and some foreign countries will attend a two-day NASA Social on Nov. 4 and 5 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

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NASA Administrator Views Atmospheric Science Satellite, Meets Media in Arizona

By NASA, on August 8th, 2013

Image credit: NASA/JPL

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit an Orbital Sciences Corp. facility in Gilbert, Ariz., on Friday, Aug. 9, to view progress on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) satellite.

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United Launch Alliance’s Delta II Tapped to Launch ICESat-2 by NASA

By Jason Rhian, on February 25th, 2013

NASA has selected the United Launch Alliance Delta II to send its ICESat-2 spacecraft into polar orbit. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — The Launch Services Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, located in Florida, has selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Delta II rocket to launch the agency’s Ice, […]

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