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 | | Mission: Michibiki | | Launch vehicle: H-2A | | Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center - Japan | | Target date: Sept. 11 2010 | | Launch window: 1117-1216 GMT (7:17-8:16 a.m. EDT) | | | | Complete Launch Schedule |
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The first phase of man's active exploration of the Moon came to an end with the Apollo 17 mission. Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, also a professional geologist, engaged in three moon walks for a total of 22 hours and 2 minutes.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - During a visit to the John F. Kennedy Space Center today, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and FL. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D - New Smyrna Beach) announced a grant of $15 million to assist approximately 3,200 workers who will be impacted by the impending retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. The grant will impact workers from major aerospace contractors, including ASRC Aerospace Corp., Boeing and United Space Alliance.
Taking off in the chilly morning skies over Mojave Desert in California, Virgin's Galactic's privately-developed commercial rocketplane made its first test flight today, beginning a yearlong test flight program before the six-passenger combination rocket and aircraft begin taking paying tourists to the edge of space and back.
The SpaceX team kicked off 2010 with the successful full duration orbit
insertion firing of the Falcon 9 second stage at our Texas test site (details
below). This was the final stage firing required for launch, so the second stage
will soon be packaged for shipment and should arrive at Cape Canaveral by end of
month. Depending on how well full vehicle integration goes, launch should occur
one to three months later.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Today, a conduit financing package was approved by the Space Florida Board of Directors to reassign the lease for Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) to United Launch Alliance. Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp signed the resolution during today's meeting of the Space Florida Board that ensures no aerospace jobs at United Launch Alliance will be lost when the shuttle stops flying in 2010.
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. -- The 45th Space Wing will cut the ribbon for a new satellite facility and break ground for a future spacecraft facility during a combined ceremony Thursday, May 28. Air Force officials and distinguished visitors will cut the ribbon for the newly constructed Satellite Spacecraft Alert Facility (SAF) in Area 59. The facility will protect small- to medium-sized satellites during severe weather, including hurricanes.
Denver, CO - United Launch Alliance today announced the successful first hot-firing of the new Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RS-68A engine that will be used to power a future upgraded version of the Delta IV Heavy Lift launch vehicle. The hot-fire test was conducted 3:16 p.m. CDT, at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, Miss., today. Stennis is the home of America’s largest rocket engine test facility. Stennis Space Center is the same facility that is utilized in development and testing of the space shuttle main engines.
ROCKLEDGE, FL - Republican presidential candidate John McCain met with leaders of Florida's aerospace industry today at Brevard Community College for a roundtable discussion about the future of the U.s. space program and the retirement of the space shuttle. Most of the talk focused on the five-year gap between the shuttle's retirement and the first operational flights of Orion, NASA's new manned spacecraft currently in development.
A landmark announcement by the U.S. Air Force and the state of Florida today will fundamentally expand the state's position and prominence in aerospace and the space industry in all three key sectors: civil, military and commercial, broadening participation in space-related activities. Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, subject to completion of the environmental impact analysis process, will be re-built as a multi-use vertical launch complex capable of supporting several launch vehicle configurations ranging from light to medium-lift into low-Earth orbit and beyond.
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