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Date Time Tune in for story time from space Logan family Mark, Charlie (centre) and Stacey Eldred take a sneak peek at the featured book for this year’s Simultaneous Storytime. Patrons at Logan City Council Libraries will be treated to an out-of-this-world experience during the 2021 National Simultaneous Storytime. NASA astronaut Dr Shannon Walker will present this year’s featured book Give me some space by author and illustrator Philip Bunting from the International Space Station on Wednes...

NASA EGS, Jacobs preparing SLS Core Stage for Artemis 1 stacking May 6, 2021 The Core Stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and was moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 29. The stage is now in the hands of KSC’s Exploration Ground System (EGS) program and prime test operations and support contractor (TOSC) Jacobs. The long-awaited milestone allows EGS and Jacobs to work towards putting the whole Orion/SLS vehicle...

NASA Astronaut Says Floating In Space Is Like Being a Superhero: It Is That Cool On 5/5/21 at 10:15 AM EDT Imagine having a job so good that you never wanted to come home from work. For Mike Fincke, this is a reality. Fincke, 54, is a NASA astronaut who has spent over a year in space—at one time holding the national record. Since reaching space for the first time in 2004, Fincke has travelled aboard Russian Soyuz capsules and NASAs Space Shuttle Endeavour orbiter. He is also due to fly on the...

Updated: May 2 2021, 0:18 ET Invalid Date, A SPACEX capsule carrying four astronauts departed the International Space Station late Saturday, ending their five-month mission as they prepare to return to Earth in a rare late-night splashdown. It would be the first US splashdown in darkness since Apollo 8′s crew returned from the moon in 1968 - and only the third in history. 6 6 SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts (L-R) Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins and Soichi NoguchiCredit: AFP NASA’s ...

Invalid Date, A SPACEX capsule carrying four astronauts has safely landed in the Gulf of Mexico after departing the International Space Station late Saturday. The landing marks the end of their five-month mission as they returned to Earth in a rare late-night splashdown. 8 8 The landing marks the end of their five-month mission as they returned to Earth in a rare late-night splashdownCredit: AP 8 8 SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts (L-R) Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins and Soichi Noguchi...

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.

Aerojet Rocketdyne refurbishing RS-25 engines for Artemis 1 launch and production restart testing April 9, 2021 With the completion of another single-engine RS-25 development test, Aerojet Rocketdyne is now refurbishing five engines at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for their next use. After the second test firing of the Retrofit 2 series in the A-1 Test Stand on April 6, development engine 0528 is going through a streamlined refurbishment prior to its next firing as a part of the prod...

SpaceX and NASA entering final preparations for Crew-2 launch April 1, 2021 With launch now just a few weeks away, SpaceX and NASA have entered final preparations for the second operational Crew Dragon mission. This will be SpaceX’s second long-duration crew rotation for NASA as a part of the Commercial Crew program.  Crew-2 will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from historic LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center on April 22 at 6:11 AM EDT (10:11 UTC). It will also ...

Shout! Studios Nichelle Nichols is best known for her role as Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series. But the 88-year-old actor also carries with her a lesser-known legacy: Playing a foundational role in the formation of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program and inspiring generations of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) leaders. A new documentary titled Woman In Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek, and the Remaking of NASA details the powerful, revealing, and uplif...