First private commercial flight takes off (video)
Private space exploration company SpaceX successfully delivers Dragon spacecraft into low Earth orbit. It is the first private spacecraft bound for the International Space Station. Image credit NASA – Space X
SpaceX and NASA prepare for launch
Space Exploration Technologies technicians attach the Dragon capsule to the second stage of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, known as SpaceX (the First Private Spaceship), in a processing facility at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
Mars Science Laboratory Inspection
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians inspect under NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission aeroshell, where the wheels of the rover Curiosity can be seen. Image credit NASA
GRAIL’s Rocket time-lapse and blastoff
This time-lapse photo traces a 20 minute long, late evening rollback of the lighted Mobile Service Tower at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17. Twin spacecraft are snug inside the 13 story tall Delta 2 rocket poised for launch. Image: Ben Cooper-Launch Photography.com
Twin GRAIL Lunar Mappers
NASA’s powerful lunar mapping duo of GRAIL spacecraft are now poised for liftoff in just one weeks time on Thursday, Sept. 8.
Juno lifts off for Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. Juno will make a five-year, 400-million-mile voyage to Jupiter. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Last Approach
For the last time, the US Space Shuttle has approached the International Space Station (ISS). Following a dramatic launch from Cape Canaveral last week that was witnessed by an estimated one million people, Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-135 lifted a small crew to a welcome rendezvous three days ago with the orbiting station.
Endeavour at the Pad
The space shuttle Endeavour sat on Launch Pad 39A as a storm passed prior to the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure, Thursday, April 28, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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T-38 the Spaceflight Trainer
Years before the space shuttle would glide home to a safe touchdown on runways in California and Florida, astronauts pitched the noses of T-38 jet trainers toward the same runways to find out what it would look like to land a spacecraft in such a way.
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Funnel clouds over Kennedy Space Center
Storm clouds pass over the Vehicle Assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on last Thursday. Image credit NASA
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