NRO successfully reuses SpaceX launch booster for first time with NROL-85 mission Press Release From: National Reconnaissance Office Posted: Sunday, April 17, 2022 The National Reconnaissance Office successfully launched the NROL-85 mission aboard a reflown SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E located at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California today at 6:13 … Read more
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts participate in a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. From left to right: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission specialist Jessica Watkins; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Robert “Bob” Hines; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 commander Kjell Lindgren; and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Crew-4 mission specialist … Read more
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin just launched its fourth successful space tourism mission, putting yet another feather in the cap of the company that hopes to make these supersonic joyrides a mainstay of pop culture. The six passengers, which include a Blue Origin engineer and five paying customers, boarded their New Shepard capsule Thursday just after … Read more
Students at Columbus Elementary School had the opportunity to ask questions and learn from astronaut Kjell Lindgren when he visited during a virtual Q&A last week. Lindgren became an astronaut in June of 2009. His first mission was to the International Space Station as part of Expedition 44/45 on July 22, 2015, according to school … Read more
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – Taking aim on the International Space Station, a cargo spacecraft launched from Virginia’s Eastern Shore, setting the stage for a busy year at an increasingly active spaceport. On Saturday, Feb. 19th, teams at Northrop Grumman and NASA successfully launched the NG-17 mission, part of a multiyear contract with the space agency … Read more
Roman will use its Coronagraph Instrument — a system of masks, prisms, detectors, and even self-flexing mirrors built to block out the glare from distant stars and reveal the planets in orbit around them — to demonstrate that direct imaging technologies can perform even better in space than they have with ground-based telescopes. “We will … Read more
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The next commercial cargo mission to the space station, celebrating the first year of Perseverance on Mars, and the first science images from a recently launched mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Viedo Transcript: The next commercial cargo mission to the space station … Celebrating … Read more
The first flight, which could come by the end of the year, will aim to send a crew of four farther than any other human spaceflight in 50 years and feature the first private-citizen spacewalk, Isaacman said in an exclusive interview with The Washington Post. The second flight also would be aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, … Read more
Falcon 9 rocket launch with the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission – February 1, 2022 Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:29 PM (edit) Falcon 9 on the launch pad before the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission (Source: SpaceX) Falcon 9 on the launch pad before the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission (Source: SpaceX) Update 2022-01-31 00:16 … Read more