Tag: Kennedy Space Center
Elite Team Managed Shuttle’s Controls During Ground Ops

Elite Team Managed Shuttle’s Controls During Ground Ops

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From the Space Shuttle’s first flight in 1981 to its final mission in 2011, thousands of professionals made the program a technical marvel. On the front line were highly skilled mechanics, technicians and engineers whose innovative work launched landmark missions such as deployment of the Space Telescope and assembly of the Space Station. For one elite group of spacecraft operators, their workstation was the space program’s “inner sanctum” — the shuttle’s crew modules.
Heroes and Legends Attraction Honors Pioneers of Spaceflight

Heroes and Legends Attraction Honors Pioneers of Spaceflight

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“Liftoff of Discovery with a crew of six astronaut heroes and one American legend,” said launch commentator Lisa Malone of NASA Public Affairs as the Space Shuttle mission STS-95 flew into orbit on Oct. 29, 1998. While it was a flight in the late 1990s, it was reminiscent of NASA’s storied past. An international crew lifted off with John Glenn, a member of the Mercury program’s Original Seven astronauts.
NASA Helped Kick-start Diversity in Employment Opportunities

NASA Helped Kick-start Diversity in Employment Opportunities

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When John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president in 1961, he promised to reach for a “New Frontier.” Attention abroad concentrated on the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Closer to home, there was increasing unrest among those who were being left behind simply because of their race. America’s space agency soon would be thrust into the forefront of both issues.
Hollinshead Helped Shape Media Services at Florida Spaceport

Hollinshead Helped Shape Media Services at Florida Spaceport

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Chuck Hollinshead, former director of Public Affairs at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, died Jan. 25, 2021 in Asheville, North Carolina. He was 89. Hollinshead helped shape the course of media services at the Florida spaceport and throughout the agency over 28 years, 17 as director of Public Affairs.
NASA Takes Major Steps Toward Launching World’s Largest Rocket

NASA Takes Major Steps Toward Launching World’s Largest Rocket

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NASA’s spacecraft designed to return astronauts to the Moon recently reached a major milestone in preparations for its first flight atop the world’s largest rocket, the Space Launch System. The Orion capsule for the agency’s Artemis I mission moved from the manufacturing and assembly stage to processing for flight. This is one of the latest steps forward for the program that will take the first woman and next man to the lunar surface.
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Operational with Liftoff of Crew-1

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Operational with Liftoff of Crew-1

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The skies over Florida’s Space Coast lit up as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocketed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center sending four astronauts to the International Space Station. After they arrive, the orbiting laboratory will be staffed for the first time by seven astronauts and cosmonauts increasing the amount of time available for research and additional opportunities for discoveries.
Crew-1 Mission Brings Space Station Staffing to Seven

Crew-1 Mission Brings Space Station Staffing to Seven

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The upcoming Crew 1 mission not only marks the first operational flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon, the four astronauts aboard will – for the first time — bring the International Space Station’s staffing from six to seven. Launch to the orbiting laboratory is set to take place at 7:49 p.m. EST on Nov. 14, 2020.
Reality Meets Science Fiction at First Space Shuttle Rollout

Reality Meets Science Fiction at First Space Shuttle Rollout

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In 1976, America’s second-generation human space program came together with an iconic story line inspired by the nation’s first efforts to “boldly go where no one has gone before.” Key players in the popular televisions series, Star Trek, attended the rollout of NASA’s prototype Space Shuttle orbiter, Enterprise.
New Vistas of Commercial Flight Open with Dawn of Space Age

New Vistas of Commercial Flight Open with Dawn of Space Age

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This is the second of a two-part series on the history of commercial flight. For years, aerospace corporations took the world to the skies. Now these companies and more are supporting efforts well beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. The Space Age began on Oct. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union. An American satellite, Explorer 1, soon followed, with plans for sending humans into space in the near future.
Iconic Building Remains a Pillar of America’s Spaceport

Iconic Building Remains a Pillar of America’s Spaceport

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The Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, is the most recognizable structure at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It is so big, it can be seen from miles away. Now that the center is a premier, multi-user spaceport, industry partners soon will share the facility. It also is the only building in the world where human spaceflight rockets have been prepared for trips to low-Earth orbit, the Moon and — in the future – to Mars.

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