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NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agency are scheduled to launch April 22 at 6:11 a.m. They’ll ride in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Capsule atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, both of which were recycled from previous crewed missions.
On April 12, 1981, Columbia roared off launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center with veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and space rookie Robert Crippen aboard.
SpaceX finally got its latest Starship prototype to land without blowing up. Well at least for a little bit.
Orlando night skies in March are gonna be lit with stunning-stellar events, a rocket launch and the emergence of the Worm Moon.
“Perseverance safely on the surface of Mars!” That was the callout from NASA’s ground team after the agency’s $2.7 billion rover landed in one piece on Mars, completing a 300 million mile-journey through space that started in Cape Canaveral.