September 3rd 2015 PST
September 03, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-15*Media Invited to View Kennedy’s 9/11 Tribute Ceremony* A section of I-beam that once strengthened the World Trade Center in New York has made its way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will serve as a memorial to the 343 fire/rescue personnel who gave their lives to save others on Sept. 11, 2001. */Credits: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis /* Media are invited to attend an event memorializing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center at 10 a.m. ...Continue Reading
September 2nd 2015 PST
September 02, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-133*NASA TV to Air Grand Opening of Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will participate in the grand opening of The Boeing Company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Sept. 4. The event will air live on NASA Television beginning at 10 a.m. EDT. Boeing, one of two companies under contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to restore America’s ability to launch cr ...Continue Reading
September 2nd 2015 PST
September 02, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-132*Three Space Station Crews to Answer Media Questions from Orbit* *//* Nine International Space Station crew members will discuss their mission with reporters from around the world during a joint crew news conference to air live on NASA Television at 10:10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 8. This will be the first time since November 2013 that nine crew members are aboard the station simultaneously. The nine crew members represent five different space agencies: [*]NASA’s Scott ...Continue Reading
August 12th 2015 PST
August 12, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M22-15*Media Invited to View NASA’s Modified Mobile Launcher for Space Launch System* A sunrise casts a golden glow on NASA's Mobile Launcher in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy is overseeing upgrades and modifications to the Mobile Launcher so it can carry the agency's Space Launch System and Orion Spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B. */Credits: NASA/Ben Smegelsky /* Media are invit ...Continue Reading
August 11th 2015 PST
August 11, 2015 CONTRACT RELEASE C15-027*NASA Selects Contractor to Prepare Launch Structure for Agency's Journey to Mars* NASA has selected J. P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Florida, to begin work at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the ground structures that will launch NASA’s next-generation rocket and spacecraft on the journey to Mars and other deep-space destinations. The Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO) Mobile Launcher Ground Support Equipment Installation contra ...Continue Reading
July 14th 2015 PST
July 14, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-15*Media Invited to View New Small Class Vehicle Launch Pad 39C* An aerial view of Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center shows the small launch area called Pad C in the southeast corner of the perimeter. */Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett /* Media are invited to attend an event for the new Small Class Vehicle Launch Pad 39C at 8:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, July 17. NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida took another step forward in its transformation into a 21st Century mu ...Continue Reading
July 9th 2015 PST
July 09, 2015 RELEASE 15-148*NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Spaceflights * *//* NASA has selected four astronauts to train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to U.S. soil and further open up low-Earth orbit transportation to the private sector. The selections are the latest major milestone in the Obama Administration’s plan to partner with U.S. industry to transport astronauts to space, create good-paying American jobs and end the nation’s sole reliance ...Continue Reading
June 27th 2015 PST
June 27, 2015 RELEASE 20-15*‘Forever Remembered’ Exhibit Honoring Challenger and Columbia Opens at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex * A permanent memorial, "Forever Remembered," is unveiled June 27 in the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. NASA and astronaut families collaborated on the memorial designed to honor the crews lost on missions STS-51L and STS-107, pay tribute to shuttle vehicles Challenger and Columbia, and emphasize the importance of ...Continue Reading
June 26th 2015 PST
June 26, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M19-15*Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Opens New Exhibit Saturday* The 90,000-square-foot "Space Shuttle Atlantis" facility, home to the now-retired space shuttle Atlantis, is a crowd pleaser at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. */Credits: NASA/Dan Casper/* News media are invited to a ceremony and the opening of a new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida at 7:30 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 27. The ceremony will be hosted by ...Continue Reading
June 22nd 2015 PST
June 22, 2015 RELEASE 15-135*NASA Signs Agreement with Space Florida to Operate Historic Landing Facility* This aerial photo of the runway at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility looks north. Longer and wider than most commercial runways, it is 15,000 feet long, with 1,000-foot paved overruns on each end, and 300 feet wide, with 50-foot asphalt shoulders. The runway is used by military and civilian cargo carriers, astronauts’ T-38 trainers, Shuttle Training Aircraft and helicopters, as well as the Space Shuttle. ...Continue Reading
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