Since KSC’s formation, ten NASA officials have served as directors, including three former astronauts (Crippen, Bridges and Cabana): Adapted from the Wikipedia article Kennedy Space Center, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Musk statement Prior to the speech, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk released a statement praising the proposal and criticizing Senators who had opposed it and former NASA administrator Michael Griffin: Aldrin statement Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin released a statement in support of the plan via the White House on February 1, prior to the announcement [...]
During early shuttle development there was great debate about the optimal shuttle design that best balanced capability, development cost and operating cost. Ultimately the current design was chosen, using a reusable winged orbiter, reusable solid rocket boosters, and an expendable external tank. The shuttle program was formally launched on January 5, 1972, when President Nixon [...]
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Space Shuttle ”Atlantis” (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States (the other two surviving Space Shuttles are the ”Discovery” and the ”Endeavour”). The ”Atlantis” was the fourth operational (and the next-to-the-last) Space Shuttle to [...]
With the planned retirement of the Shuttle in 2010, NASA will modify the two launch pads to accommodate the manned Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle and the unmanned Ares V Cargo Launch Vehicle in support of Project Constellation. Prior to the announcement that the two launchers would use LC-39, officials in Florida were concerned by [...]
Individual Space Shuttle Orbiters are named in honor of antique sailing ships of the navies of the world, and they are also numbered using the NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation system. While all of the Orbiters are externally practically identical, they have minor differences in their interiors. New equipment for the Orbiters is installed in the [...]
Florida’s peninsular shape and temperature contrasts between land and ocean provide ideal conditions for electrical storms earning Central Florida the reputation as “lightning capitol of the United States”. This makes extensive lightning protection and detection systems necessary to protect employees, structures and spacecraft on launch pads safe. On November 14, 1969, Apollo 12 was struck [...]
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NASA’s first launch, Pioneer 1, came on October 11, 1958 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A using a Thor-Able booster. The civilian agency has used launch pads at Cape Canaveral AFS ever since for many unmanned launches ranging from satellites to lunar probes, including the Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter series during the 1960s. NASA has also [...]
Integration of launch vehicle stack The thrust to allow the Space Shuttle to achieve orbit is provided by a combination of the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) and the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs). The SRBs use solid propellant, hence their name. The SSMEs use a combination of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (LOX) from the [...]
In an attempt to build a Satellite Launch Vehicle (”Veículo Lançador de Satélite–VLS”), Brazil has since 1964 developed a series of sounding (research) rockets, named Sonda I, II, III, and IV. The early Sondas were test-launched from Barreiro do Inferno Launch Center, near the city of Natal in the Northeast Region. The Sonda IV rocket [...]
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