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NASA’s Endeavour orbiter made its way to the top of a 20-story-tall vertical display of the retired Space Shuttle, completing a legendary ready-for-launch stack that makes it look as though it’s ready to soar to the skies once more.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie A 450-foot crane carefully lifted the 122-foot-long (37 meters) winged orbiter onto two solid rocket boosters and a massive external tank for its final vertical position as part of the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, which is…

Liftoff of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket on June 22, 2023.Gif: ULA/GizmodoThere’s plenty of smoke in the air—and not just from Canada’s raging wildfires. Indeed, the past month was witness to a steady cadence of rocket launches and rocket tests, all spewing out excitement and hope. At the same time, probes already working in space beamed back evidence of their important work. Humankind’s expanding reach into space was on full display over the past 30 days, as these incredible new images attest. Liftoff…

NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was originally designed to carry Saturn V rockets during the Apollo program nearly 60 years ago. The aging giant recently got a much-needed upgrade for supporting the Artemis SLS megarocket, beating its twin vehicle for a world record.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonOn Wednesday, Guinness World Records presented NASA teams at the Kennedy Space Center with a certificate confirming that, at a whopping 6.65 million pounds (3 million kilograms), Crawler Transporter 2 is the world’s…

An illustration of Stoke Space’s fully reusable rocket.Illustration: Stoke SpaceIn 1962, John Glenn became the first U.S. citizen to orbit the Earth, riding into space on board the Friendship 7 capsule, which took off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14. More than 60 years later, that same old launchpad will be put to new use after being assigned to a private space venture to launch its reusable rocket.Stoke Space was granted the use of Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida bySpace Launch…

The Space Launch System carrying the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 1 mission launched on November 16, 2022. Photo: Brandon Hancock/NASANASA’s new lunar program is in full swing, thanks to the successful launch and return of the Artemis 1 mission in late 2022. Physics researchers recently determined that the roar of the Space Launch System megarocket was louder than anticipated—but not so loud as the NASA launch that sparked an urban legend.NASA officially kicked off the Artemis program with the launch of the…

Scorching and other minor damage at Launch Pad 39B.Screenshot: NASA TVA scorched platform, fried cameras, broken pipes, and a busted elevator are among the casualties of last week’s launch of NASA’s SLS rocket. Mobile Launcher 1 and Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center will require repairs, but NASA says they’ll be ready for the next Artemis mission.Space Launch System, or SLS, blasted off during the early hours of Wednesday, November 16, sending the Orion capsule on a 25.5-day journey to the Moon and back. It was a…

SLS at the Kennedy launch pad on November 4. Photo: NASAMonday, November 14 was supposed to be the day that the Space Launch System finally takes flight, but a late-season tropical storm has forced NASA to bump the launch back, but thankfully not by a whole lot. The space agency opted to leave SLS on the launch pad, saying it’s designed to withstandstorms of this magnitude. Star Wars: Shatterpoint Announcement Trailer02:27The First Things To Do In VR, Part 3Yesterday 9:39AMI’m in the Eastern Time Zone, so I was all ready…

SLS at the Florida launch pad with Crawler-transporter 2 in the foreground. Photo: NASANASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has entered into a hurricane preparedness mode as Subtropical Storm Nicole threatens the peninsula. At the same time, the space agency says its 321-foot-tall SLS rocket will remain at the launch pad—at least for now. NOAA is currently tracking Nicole, saying the stormwill produce heavy rains by Wednesday night and Thursday across the Florida peninsula, and it’s projecting the arrival of tropical…

Crew Dragon Endurance atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on October 1, 2022. Photo: SpaceXEngineers quip that FOD is a four-letter word, but there’s nothing funny about foreign object debris and its potential to trigger disaster.The incident happened on October 5 at around 10:25 a.m. ET, as a SpaceX pad crew was preparing Crew Dragon Endurance for launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket. With the four Crew-5 astronauts already inside the capsule and the hatch closed, an attentive eye spotted a single human hair in the latch seal. The…

The Space Launch System prior to being rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on September 26.Photo: NASAAfter two launch scrubs, an impromptu tanking test, and an awful hurricane, NASA is once again preparing for the inaugural launch of its Space Launch System. The new targeted launch date for the Artemis 1 mission is Monday, November 14, with a 69-minute launch window that opens at 12:07 a.m. ET, as NASA announced today in a blog post. In the event of a scrub, backup launch opportunities exist on Wednesday,…