National Air and Space Museum Receives SpaceShipTwo Rocket Motor From Virgin Galactic 7 February 2019 | 8:27 pm The National Air and Space Museum received RocketMotorTwo, the hybrid engine that powered Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, called VSS Unity, into space for the first time Dec. 13, 2018....

NASA, SpaceX, and Being Update Commercial Crew Launch Dates 6 February 2019 | 8:31 pm NASA and its Commercial Crew Program providers Boeing and SpaceX have agreed to move the target launch dates for the upcoming inaugural test flights of their next generation American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space...

SpaceX Crew Access Arm 1 February 2019 | 12:23 am At NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A, the crew access arm has been extended to the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Jan. 3, 2019....

Why Is CASIS Making Itself Disappear? 29 January 2019 | 9:42 pm According to a press release the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory will host its annual Public Board of Directors Meeting in Washington, D.C....

New Shepard Successfully Flies 8 NASA Research And Technology Payloads to Space 23 January 2019 | 11:29 pm Blue Origin demonstrated the versatility of the New Shepard system by taking 8 NASA-sponsored research and technology payloads into space today....

United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches NROL-71 21 January 2019 | 4:14 pm A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a critical payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) denoted NROL-71 lifted off from Space Launch Complex-6 on Jan. 19 at 11:10 a.m. PST. The mission is in support of...

NanoRacks Announces First Customer Contract for India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) 19 December 2018 | 11:26 pm NanoRacks is excited to announce that the Company has signed its first customer contract for a small satellite rideshare on the India Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)....

Preparing A Rocket Lab Electron Payload For NASA 19 December 2018 | 12:01 am The Rocket Lab Electron rocket payload fairing is prepared for the encapsulation of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites 19 (ELaNa 19) payload on Dec. 1, 2018, at the company's facility in New Zealand....

SpaceX Demo-1 Spacecraft and Falcon 9 Being Prepared For Launch 18 December 2018 | 11:55 pm SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket are positioned at the company's hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the Demo-1 flight test targeted for January 17, 2019....

Rocket Lab sLaunches NASA CubeSats On First Venture Class Launch Services Mission 16 December 2018 | 2:56 pm US small satellite launch company Rocket Lab has launched its third orbital mission of 2018, successfully deploying satellites to orbit for NASA....

Static Test Qualifies Crew Safety Launch Abort Motor for Flight in Cold Conditions 14 December 2018 | 12:37 am Northrop Grumman Corporation along with NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop Grumman's facility in Promontory, Utah....

Did Virgin Galactic Go To "Space" Today? 13 December 2018 | 3:52 pm Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reached an altitude of 51.4 miles today after 15 years of struggles to replicate the performance of SpaceShipOne in 2004. AFter some additional tests commercial passengers will reportedly be carried. But did they go to "Space" today?...

CST-100 Starliner Prepared For Transport 29 November 2018 | 11:56 pm On Nov. 12, 2018, inside the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers prepare the company's CST-100 Starliner for transport to the company's testing facilities in El Segundo, California....

First LauncherOne Captive Carry Flight By Virgin Orbit 19 November 2018 | 10:26 am This Sunday, a new sight appeared in the baby-blue skies over Southern California: A specially modified 747-400 carrying a 70-foot-long rocket under its wing soared through the air as part of a successful test flight for Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne....

NASA, Northrop Grumman Launch Space Station, National Lab Cargo 17 November 2018 | 1:49 pm Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore....