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Scott PowersMarch 17, 2016

When NASA officials refer to their singular human-spaceflight program “Journey To Mars,” they’re not talking about the 800 to 1,000 days it will take for astronauts to get there and back. At Kennedy Space Center, indeed all of Cape Canaveral, and worldwide for that matter, spaceflight and human-spaceflight facilities and organizations are incubating private, commercial-space programs […]

Scott PowersMarch 15, 2016

An Atlas V rocket is set to blast off from Cape Canaveral next Tuesday with a capsule full of supplies, equipment and research materials for the International Space Station including an experiment that will set a fire inside the capsule. The Orbital ATK Cygnus capsule atop the Atlas V will carry almost 7,500 pounds up. […]

Scott PowersJanuary 29, 2016

NASA has announced a launch date for the next commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, but the mission is the next one planned for Orbital ATK to fly, not the SpaceX mission that was expected to come first. NASA is preparing for an early-morning, March 10 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. […]

Scott PowersJanuary 28, 2016

NASA expects to delay its next shipment of equipment and supplies to the International Space Station because SpaceX has not yet determined a launch date. After successful return-to-flight launches in December from Cape Canaveral and last week from California, SpaceX had two launches coming up next, but neither has been set yet. That includes the […]

Guest AuthorJuly 6, 2015

The words “We have liftoff!” are as exciting as any in the English language; right up there with “Gentlemen, start your engines!” The remarkable feat of sending a rocket or space shuttle into space has seen the heights of triumph and the depths of failure. Many still agonize over a fire that took the lives […]

Tag: International Space Station

NASA’s ‘Journey To Mars’ begins with a thousand steps

Orbital ATK capsule to include fire experiment as it resupplies space station

NASA preps for next Orbital ATK resupply mission, possibly skipping SpaceX

NASA delaying space station resupply awaiting SpaceX launch plans

Jeff Kottkamp and Rich Ramos: Price for long-term success can be short-term failure