NASA Opens Media Accreditation, Announces Events for Shuttle Atlantis' Final Move

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Media accreditation is open for activities surrounding space shuttle Atlantis’ move to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida for permanent public display. Continue reading

Don't miss: The last flight of space shuttle Endeavour

WHAT: Space shuttle Endeavour will make its final flight from Florida on Monday. It will be aboard a special 747 that will transport the craft to Los Angeles, where eventually it will be on display at the California Science Center Continue reading

NASA jets, tickets taking off for shuttle flight

NASA is deploying a few high-flying paparazzi to Hollywood to scout out the best photo spots for next month’s arrival of one of its biggest stars: space shuttle Endeavour. Meanwhile on the East Coast, tickets have just gone on sale for the public to stake out their own photo ops to see Endeavour as it departs its Florida spaceport for the final time. Continue reading

XCOR Aerospace headed for Florida

XCOR Aerospace next week will announce plans to build rocket engines and potentially a suborbital spacecraft in Florida, likely at Kennedy Space Center. The California company expects to create 152 jobs with this operations and manufacturing business, which it will announce at 10 a.m. on Aug. Continue reading

NASA Invites Media to Astronaut Panel Session July 11

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Media are invited to attend a panel session featuring current and former NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8 p.m. EDT on July 11 Continue reading

Kennedy Space Center's 50th Anniversary Celebration Includes Nod to the Past and Look to the Future

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, July 1 with a program that includes NASA officials discussing the historic spaceport and the dynamic transformation underway to support the next generation of space exploration. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120518/NY09986-a ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120518/NY09986LOGO-b ) Beginning the program at 2 p.m. Sunday is the panel discussion, “Kennedy Space Center: Past, Present and Future,” at the Astronaut Encounter Theater. Continue reading

NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Meeting 20 Jul 2012

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 26, 2012)] [Notices] [Page 38090] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-15546] NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Notice 12-044] Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel; Meeting. AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Continue reading

Space Shuttle Enterprise arrives in New York. Where will the other shuttles go?

Like the Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise, which is now on theflight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air &SpaceMuseum in New York City,NASA’s three realspaceshuttles the ones that rocketed into orbit also will spend their retirement in museums. Continue reading