#Kennedy Space Center

Author: Emilee Speck / Source: Florida Today (Photo: TIM SHORTT/ FLORIDA TODAY) Falcon Heavy will launch as soon as this Sunday from Kennedy Space Center a little more than a year after the rocket first blasted off from the same pad on a successful test flight. SpaceX plans to send up a

Author: Kenneth Chang / Source: New York Times Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The space shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop on a runway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 21, 2011, its last flight. That ended an era of American spacecraft carrying astronauts to space. “Mission

Author: The Conversation / Source: The Next Web Space launches are some of the most spectacular and nerve wracking events you can witness. And when you are actually involved in one, you realize just how much can go wrong. We are currently in Florida, nervously counting down the hours until we

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is ready to reach for the stars — well, one specific star. It’s about to blast off to become the first spacecraft to visit the sun (SN: 7/21/18, p. 12). The probe will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape

Author: Bethany Brookshire / Source: Science News The dwindling dusky In the marshes around America’s spaceport, Kennedy Space Center, live the last few specimens of a bird that may be closer to extinction than even the much-mourned whooping crane. While the whooper might make a gradual comeback