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Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease, and one inactive.From 1967 to 1975, it was the site of 13 Saturn V launches, three crewed Skylab flights and the Apollo–Soyuz; all Space Shuttle flights from 1981 to 2011, and one Ares 1-X flight in 2009.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is seen on launch pad 39A at the NASA Kennedy Space Center shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back on November 15, 2009. As the Space Shuttle was being designed, NASA received proposals for building alternative launch-and-landing sites at locations other than KSC, which demanded study.
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 (CCSFS SLC-41) $148.3 [50] 2021.11.24 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Falcon 9: Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4 East (VSFB SLC-4E) $69 [51] 2021.12.09 Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Falcon 9: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 (CCSFS SLC-39A ...
SpaceX is set to send up the next quartet of astronauts to the International Space Station from an overnight launch from Kennedy Space Center. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Crew Dragon ...
A rocket launch is scheduled overnight — NASA's PACE spacecraft. As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, SpaceX and NASA are targeting 1:33 a.m. EST Wednesday to launch PACE atop a Falcon 9 rocket from ...
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon.Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1] [2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.
The center, which opened December 17, 1996, [26] was designed by Bob Rogers and the design team BRC Imagination Arts, [27] for NASA and Delaware North Companies. The opening of the exhibit was historic for NASA as it was the first large exhibit to be opened inside a restricted area, only accessible by Kennedy Space Center tour buses. [3]
Kennedy Space Center has been using the same two crawlers since their initial delivery in 1965. They are now nicknamed "Hans and Franz", after the parodic Austrian body-builder characters on Saturday Night Live, played by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon. [13]