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The space agency knows it needs to adapt to climate-driven events that will increasingly threaten coastal launch sites and other key space infrastructure.

Hurricane Ida strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm overnight as it approaches the coast of Louisiana today (Aug. 29)

NASAs George C. Marshall Space Flight Center has more than six decades of history designing, building and testing a storied series of rockets, rocket engines and instruments to fly in space. The center’s accomplishments include the Redstone rocket used to launch Project Mercury, the Saturn rockets for the Apollo program, the Skylab space station, and the Hubble Space Telescope. Marshall is located on the grounds of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, a city in northern Alabama about...

Tamarack Industries is committed to retaining the design of the Thawzall glycol and flameless product while continuing to enhance its quality and reliability.

The mechanical rice transplanter (Photo by the Philippine Rice Research Institute/DOST-PCAARRD) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said the project was focused on improving the gear transmission system of the riding-type rice transplanter, which seeks to cut the cost on labor as well as the farmers’ seed requirement. “This project is part of DOST-MIRDC’s effort to level up farm mechanization capabilities of the country,” he said during his weekly report on Friday, May 21...

Teams at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility have begun assembling the core stage for the Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket.

Printer Version Boeing’s 1st Core Stage for NASA’s Space Launch System Arrives at Kennedy Space Center A Boeing-built rocket core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System was unloaded from a barge at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center and moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building. The 212-foot (65-meter) core stage will be stacked with a Boeing/United Launch Alliance Interim Cryogenic Upper Stage, two solid rocket boosters, a L...

If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. The core stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday evening aboard a specially-built barge, completing a voyage by sea from a test site in Mississippi to begin final preparations for the first fligh...

The biggest piece to a years-in-the-making rocket that will become the most powerful to ever launch off the planet arrives to Kennedy Space Center this week when the core stage for the Artemis I mission to the moon makes its way to Florida.

Date Time Share Boeing’s 1st Core Stage for NASA’s Space Launch System is Ready for Journey to Launch Site Boeing [NYSE: BA] begins delivery of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket cryogenic core stage to NASA today in preparation for launch of the Artemis I mission, the first moon mission in nearly 50 years. Boeing refurbished the stage after it successfully completed hot fire testing last month at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, closing out the Green Run campaign on the B-2 test stand. T...