November 12, 2024 – What a great way to celebrate Veteran’s Day. Launch watchers around the Titusville area had to be pleased with not one, but two opportunities to watch blast offs from across the water. The first launch at 12;22 p.m. broke the record as the 77th orbital launch during a single calendar year… [Continue Reading]
(October 22, 2024) NASA has awarded Boeing a two-year engineering and sustainment contract, continuing the company’s more than three decades’ support of the International Space Station (ISS). The contract extension, through Sept. 30, 2026, will enable Boeing to provide essential engineering support for the majority of the station’s hardware and software systems. The company will… [Continue Reading]
June 6, 2024 – Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has become the sixth unique spacecraft to transport crew in U.S. history, with a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket sending the reusable capsule carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station. Rocketing from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday, the… [Continue Reading]
April 26, 2024 (Boeing press release) Boeing and NASA are proceeding with plans for the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft’s Crew Flight Test following a Flight Test Readiness Review at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The readiness review is a standard pre-launch milestone ahead of all human spaceflight missions, and is a forum for technical… [Continue Reading]
March 27, 2024 – (from ULA) As preparations continue for the final launch of the Delta rocket, United Launch Alliance (ULA) salutes the generations of current and former Delta teammates who designed, built, assembled and launched this storied family of rockets for the past 63 years. Delta is completing its mission as ULA transitions to… [Continue Reading]
Bremen, Germany – September 25, 2023 – The work underway in support of Artemis missions is an international effort and recently Germany has agreed to join the Artemis Accords, which is a non-binding agreement between the United States and partner nations, to help the effort to bring humans back to the Moon, to Mars and… [Continue Reading]
August 26, 2023 – It was the wee small hours of the morning, but that did nothing to hamper the launch of the SpaceX Crew 7 mission. With a mighty roar heard throughout Titusville and lighting the sky at 3:27 a.m. earlier today, the four astronauts on board represent four different space agencies and are… [Continue Reading]
