Credit: Rocket Lab According to a story on www.spacenews.com, The X Prize Foundation announced that it has verified a Moon Express launch contract, making the company the second with an approved deal needed to participate in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize...
A photograph of the launch from Nov. 3, 2015. Yesterday, Hawaii held its first rocket launch. Although the launch vehicle experienced an anomaly, there’s plenty to celebrate about yesterday’s mission. For starters, it was the first launch of the Super...
Photograph of the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force Story by Stephen Clark from Spaceflight Now U.S. military authorities have granted approval for liftoff Tuesday of a simplified satellite launcher from Hawaii on a test...
China launched an experimental spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return to Earth Thursday (10/23/14) in preparation for its first lunar landing return mission in history. The ‘Long March 3C’ rocket blasted off early in the morning from Xichang satellite launch center,...
Above: Astronaut Piers Sellers during a 2006 spacewalk outside the now-retired Space Shuttle. Credit: NASA Today (Sept. 16, 2014) NASA officials announced the return of manned spaceflight launches from the U.S. for the first time since the Shuttle program ended in...
