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For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center, the NASA Test Director (NTD) performed this check via a voice communications link with other NASA personnel. The NTD was the leader of the shuttle test team responsible for directing and integrating all flight crew, orbiter, external tank/solid rocket booster and ...
A rocket launch is scheduled overnight — NASA's PACE spacecraft. As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, SpaceX and NASA are targeting 1:33 a.m. EST Wednesday to launch PACE atop a Falcon 9 rocket from ...
The primary mirror segments and secondary mirror were moved away from their protective launch positions. This took about 10 days, because the 132 [57] actuator motors are designed to fine-tune the mirror positions at microscopic accuracy (10 nanometer increments) and must each move over 1.2 million increments (12.5 mm) during initial alignment.
Following Tuesday's launch, the Falcon 9 rocket's first-stage booster was able to detach from the spacecraft within 10 minutes, guide itself back to Earth and land as planned aboard a drone ship ...
NASA and SpaceX will launch a two-person crew on a Dragon that will be the ride home for the Starliner astronauts stuck in space.
The NASA X-57 Maxwell was an experimental aircraft developed by NASA, intended to demonstrate technology to reduce fuel use, emissions, and noise. [2] The first flight of the X-57 was scheduled to take place in 2023, but the program was cancelled due to problems with the propulsion system. [3] [4] [5]
Watch below for the SpaceX launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, scheduled for 3:22 p.m. ET on May 30. Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will be the first astronauts ...
Blackwell-Thompson is the launch director for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program, based at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC). [1] She oversaw the countdown and liftoff of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft during its first flight test, called Artemis 1. [2]