April 30, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-069*SpaceX Targets May 6 for Pad Abort Test of New Crew Spacecraft * SpaceX now is targeting Wednesday, May 6, for a pad abort test of its Crew Dragon, a spacecraft under final development and certification through NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The test window will open at 7 a.m. EDT. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the test, which will simulate an emergency abort from a test stand on Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral ...Continue Reading

  April 24, 2015 RELEASE 12-15*NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Robert D. Cabana Receives 2015 National Space Trophy*  Robert D. Cabana, Center Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center */Credits: NASA/* The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation awarded the 2015 National Space Trophy to Colonel Robert D. Cabana, director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, former NASA astronaut on four space shuttle missions, and retired United States Mar ...Continue Reading

  April 22, 2015 RELEASE 11-15*Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Celebrates Hubble Space Telescope 25th Anniversary* Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida invites guests to participate in three days of special activities and events centered on the accomplishments of the Hubble Space Telescope. The three-day event, “25 Years of Hubble,” will take place April 24-26. There is a charge for admission to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Activities and e ...Continue Reading

  April 21, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-062*Media Accreditation Opens for SpaceX Commercial Crew Pad Abort Test * Media accreditation is open for a pad abort test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft next month. The test will simulate an emergency abort from a test stand on Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. As a development test, it has a higher likelihood of encountering an issue than an operational mission does. SpaceX currently is targeting no earli ...Continue Reading

April 21, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-062*Media Accreditation Opens for SpaceX Commercial Crew Pad Abort Test * Media accreditation is open for a pad abort test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft next month. The test will simulate an emergency abort from a test stand on Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. As a development test, it has a higher likelihood of encountering an issue than an operational mission does. SpaceX currently is targeting no earlier than Tuesday, May 5, for the ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 14, 2015 * Research for One-Year Space Station Mission Among NASA Cargo Launched Aboard SpaceX Resupply Flight * Research that will help prepare NASA astronauts and robotic explorers for future missions to Mars is among the two tons of cargo now on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 10, 2015 * NASA Awards Architect-Engineer Services Contract for Launch Infrastructure * NASA has selected BPRH Architect and Engineers, Inc., of Melbourne, Florida, and Jones Edmunds and Associates, Inc., of Gainesville, Florida, to provide architect-engineer services to rehabilitate, modernize and develop new and existing civil ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 7, 2015 * NASA TV Coverage Set for Sixth SpaceX Resupply Mission to Space Station * The sixth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch on Monday, April 13, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 18, 2015 * NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Solar Probe Plus Mission * NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the agency’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission. The SPP spacecraft will launch aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cap ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 13, 2015 * NASA Spacecraft in Earth’s Orbit, Preparing to Study Magnetic Reconnection *  The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft aboard launches Thursday, March 12, 2015, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida.Image Credit: NASA Foll ...Continue Reading