Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems’ Dream Chaser design passed one of its most complex tests to date with a successful captive-carry test conducted near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Jefferson County, Colo., on May 29. Just like the space shuttle before it, SNC’s Dream Chaser will go… Read more“Dream Chaser Flight Vehicle Scales Rocky Mountain Summits”
NuSTAR Gearing Up
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array will study everything from massive black holes to our own sun. NuSTAR is on track to launch June 13.
Retired Apollo Engineer Sees Orion Future
The last time James Murphy set foot inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the high bay gleamed from polished white floors and walls and teemed with spacecraft destined for the moon being processed for flight. After 40 years, that description still fits as… Read more“Retired Apollo Engineer Sees Orion Future”
NASA’s SDO Captures 2012 Venus Transit Approach
This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Venus as it nears the disk of the sun on June 5, 2012. Venus’s 2012 transit will be the last such event until 2117.
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SpaceX Launches Falcon 9/Dragon on Historic Mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into space and delivered a Dragon cargo capsule into orbit on May 22, 2012. The launch began an ambitious mission to show that the company is ready to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. “We’re now back on the brink of a… Read more“SpaceX Launches Falcon 9/Dragon on Historic Mission”