For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The recently arrived and massive 212 foot long, 228,000 pound core stage Pathfinder mock-up for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket was lifted to the vertical position inside the Vehicle Assembly Building’s (VAB) transfer aisle and then into High Bay 3 this past week at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center – by
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Culminating years of design effort NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine unveiled a pair of hi tech Artemis generation astronaut spacesuits to be worn by the 1st woman and the next man who will journey to the Moon in Orion capsules and walk on the lunar South Pole by 2024 – during a rousing event held Tuesday, Oct
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Technicians completed the last in an increasingly complex series of wet water flow sound suppression tests on the Mobile Launcher atop Launch Pad 39B for NASA’s mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Saturday, Oct. 12 , when they sent nearly half a million gallons of water gushing to the pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space
Vice President Mike Pence visited NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 20, 2019, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Apollo 11 Moon landing. He joined Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Apollo 11 moonwalkwer Buzz Aldrin, KSC Director/astronaut Bob Cabana and other dignitaries to announce the completion of NASA’s Orion crew capsule for the first Artemis lunar mission –