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Welcome home, SLS!NASAs SLS (Space Launch System) core stage has arrived at @NASAKennedys Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida, where teams will integrate it with the additional #Artemis II flight hardware atop the mobile launcher for the first crewed @NASAArtemis mission to the Moon.Image descri...

Taking the sea-nic route NASAs Pegasus barge, carrying the massive SLS (Space Launch System) core stage, arrived at @NASAKennedys Complex 39 turn basin wharf in Florida on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, after journeying from the agencys Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.The core stage is the next...

Happy 25th launch-iversary to @NASAChandraXray! On July 23, 1999, space shuttle Columbia changed night into day as it roared into the sky after a successful liftoff from Launch Pad 39B on mission STS-93. Liftoff occurred at 12:31 a.m. EDT. STS-93 was a five-day mission primarily to release the Ch...

Good morning from the Pegasus crew The Pegasus barge, carrying NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) core stage for the @nasaartemis II mission from Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, will soon arrive here at @nasakennedy, but not before the crew experienced a beautiful ocean sunrise.Image descr...

13 years ago today...At 5:57 a.m. ET on July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at Kennedys Launch and Landing Facility after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles on the STS-135 mission and final flight for the Space Shuttle Program.Image description: S...

Magnificent desolation.After launching aboard a Saturn V rocket from Launch Pad 39A on July 16, 1969, NASA astronauts Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., took humanitys first steps on the lunar surface 55 years ago today.Image description: Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar mod...

Waiting for your package like Team members at @nasa's Michoud Assembly Facility have loaded the first core stage that will help launch the first crewed flight of NASAs SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the @NASAArtemis II mission onto the Pegasus barge! The barge will ferry the core stage on a...

Today marks 55 years since the Apollo 11 mission launch.The Apollo 11 mission, the first crewed lunar mission, launched from @NASAKennedy in Florida on a Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969, and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969.The Saturn V vehicle produced a wave of flames as it ro...

Happy 65th birthday to NASA's logo, the meatball!The design became the official logo of the United States new space agency in 1959 and has adorned the Vehicle Assembly Building since 1998, measuring 110 feet by 132 feet, or about 12,300 square feet.Image description: Seen on Oct. 27, 2020, is the...

Under (no) pressure Teams at @NASAKennedy recently lowered @NASAs Orion spacecraft for @NASAArtemis II into an altitude chamber using a 30-ton crane in preparation for vacuum testing that will simulate the harsh environment of space onto the vehicle. The integrated spacecraft has been undergoing...

A retro #ThrowbackThursday Carrying the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and mobile launcher, the crawler-transporter inches its way from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the hardstand atop Launch Complex 39A at @nasakennedy in May 1969.During its roll to pad, the transporter carried the 363-foot...

Firefly lights up the night sky Firefly Aerospaces Alpha rocket carrying eight CubeSats as part of @NASAs CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) lifts off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:04 p.m. PT on July 3, 2024.The successful launch of the rocket, named ...