Category Archives: Rockets

Orion Splashdown Tests Ensure Safe Landings For Astronauts

18,000-pound test article that mimics the size and weight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft crew module NASA. — The Orion program recently completed a final series of water impact tests in…

Spacex Falcon to launch first commercial re-supply of station October 7th.

NASA – SpaceX and NASA continue to prepare for the company’s first Commercial Resupply Services, or CRS, mission to the International Space Station aboard the Dragon capsule. The SpaceX CRS…

Space Shuttle Endeavour To Make Historic Final Ferry Flight

NASA — Space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop NASA’s modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), will make the final ferry flight of the Space Shuttle Program era when it departs Monday,…