Associated PressFebruary 21, 2021
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Katherine Johnson died last year at 101 years old.
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Associated PressFebruary 21, 2021Associated PressAugust 31, 2017
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For the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, NASA says it may soon have the capability to send astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil. Critical milestones are on the horizon for Boeing and SpaceX, the space agency’s commercial crew partners: Flight tests of their spacecraft, including crewed […]
Scott PowersJanuary 19, 2017
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Kennedy Space Center is getting back in the rocket business, now that SpaceX is back in business. SpaceX is planning to launch its next rockets in the next few weeks from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A . They will be the first rockets to blast off from Kennedy Space Center since the space shuttle program was […]
Scott PowersFebruary 5, 2016
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U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democratic candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, said Friday that he supports broad but efficient development of a commercial space program and also thinks the U.S. government needs to keep pursuing space for military and intelligence support. Murphy on Friday was the first U.S. Senate candidate this year to meet with Space Coast […]
Guest AuthorAugust 12, 20157min273
A new album crossed my Spotify playlist this past week: Frank Turner’s Positive Songs for Negative People. While listening, the song “Silent Key” caught me off guard. Woven into the lyrics is a haunting imagined message from fallen astronaut-teacher Christa McAuliffe to a ham radio operator. Silent key is a term used to denote a […]
Guest AuthorJuly 6, 20158min216
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 […]
Melissa RossJuly 6, 2015
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This week in Jacksonville, Community Health Outreach will commemorate the 20th anniversary of former NASA Astronaut and Jacksonville resident Norm Thagard’s return from the Russian Mir 18 mission on July 7, 1995. Twenty-eight experiments were conducted in the course of the 115-day flight. The mission culminated in a landing at the Kennedy Space Center in the […]