NASA Test Fires Solid Booster for Artemis Missions
Things got hot in Utah yesterday with a test firing of the world’s most powerful solid rocket booster.
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Live: Endeavour comes home with Bob and Doug
Dragon capsule Endeavour and its two-man crew, Bob Behnken, and Doug Hurley, prepare to come home after over two months in space.
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Artemis I/SLS Booster Components Arrive Ahead of Stacking
JUNE 17, 2020–Northrop Grumman has delivered ten Space Launch System solid rocket segments for the Artemis I mission, along with two inert OmegA segments for booster training to the Kennedy Space Center after making a long train ride from Utah to Florida.
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NASA chooses Astrobotic to land VIPER rover on the Moon
JUNE 13, 2020– On June 11th, 2020, NASA announced that Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh robotics company, had been selected to deliver the VIPER rover to the lunar South Pole as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), part of the Artemis program, which seeks to land humans on the moon by 2024.
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Rocket Lab plans return to flight
JUNE 2, 2020– Rocket Lab has announced a return to flight of the Electron rocket with a new launch date of Don’t Stop Me Now, Electron’s 12th flight. Electron, will now launch on June 11, 2020.
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The Final Week: SpaceX Prepares for Their First Crewed Flight
MAY 24, 2020–After ten years, we are now less than a week away from seeing two astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, fly to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s crew-rated Dragon 2 spacecraft.
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NASA’s chief of human spaceflight resigns days before critical crew launch
MAY 19, 2020–NASA’s head of human spaceflight programs, Doug Loverro, has abruptly resigned within days of Demo Mission 2, the first crewed U.S. space flight within nearly a decade.
Read moreNASA releases a further breakdown of Artemis HLS vehicle risks and challenges
MAY 14, 2020–In a virtual conference yesterday, NASA HEO released a further breakdown of the Human Lander System, or HLS contracts.
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X-37B set to fly its sixth mission carrying Air Force Academy payload
MAY 7, 2020–The X-37B will launch next week carrying a new satellite built by Air Force students.
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NASA’s SLS Program prepares for re-start of SLS operations amid COVID-19
MAY 6, 2020- After temporarily pausing on-site work for the agency’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, NASA is now preparing to reopen the Marshall Spaceflight Center (MSFC), Stennis Space Center, and Michoud Assembly Facility alongside other agency centers and locations which are critical to the Artemis Program.
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