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NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees are photographed in front of Kennedy Space Center’s iconic countdown clock at the Press Site after the Crew-5 flag was raised on Oct. 3, 2022, in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Mike Fincke, right, pose for photographs while visiting NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 19, 2022.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Mike Fincke, right, pose for photographs while visiting NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 19, 2022.
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NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees are photographed in front of Kennedy Space Center’s iconic countdown clock at the Press Site after the Crew-5 flag was raised on Oct. 3, 2022, in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
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Students Alex Mather, at left, and Vaneeza Rupani, stand near the countdown clock at the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. Mather named the Perseverance rover, and Rupani named the Ingenuity helicopter. The rover is scheduled to launch July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida, carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members to the International Space Station. Aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft are NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. They will dock to the orbiting laboratory at about 8:40 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 27.
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NASA and the Economic Development Commission Signing Agreement
Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off the pad at Launch Complex 39A at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, 2023 carrying the Dragon spacecraft Endeavour for NASA’s Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station. Aboard Dragon are NASA astronauts, Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander, and Warren Hoburg, pilot, along with mission specialists Sultan Alneyadi, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut, and Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut. Crew-6 is the sixth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station, and the seventh flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A
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SpaceX Falcon 9/COTS 2 - Charles Bolden talks to the media after launch
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A full-scale mockup of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is at the News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. The rover is scheduled to launch July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
Osprey at Press Site with VAB in Background
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Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Manager Steve Stich, left, and CCP Deputy Program Manager Ven Feng raise the Crew-7 flag on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background are other CCP employees. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 3:49 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. Crew-7 marks the first spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov, and the second for Mogensen and Furukawa.
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Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
A coyote with an intent gaze roams in the grass near a waterway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 4, 2021. The center shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. More than 330 native and migratory bird species, along with 25 mammal, 117 fish, and 65 amphibian and reptile species call Kennedy and the wildlife refuge home.
COTS-2 Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP)
NASA and the Economic Development Commission Signing Agreement
Student essay winners Amanda Gutierrez, left, and Taia Saurer pose with NASA astronaut Anne McClain at the agency’s news center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 2, 2022. Gutierrez and Saurer won the Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest – a nationwide event involving nearly 14,000 students – for their creative visions of a pioneering journey to the Moon. The grand prize was a trip to Kennedy to watch the launch of Artemis I. Gutierrez, 17, is an 11th-grader from Lincoln, Nebraska, while Saurer, 14, is an eighth-grader from Laguna Beach, California.
From left, George Alderman, NASA Deputy Press Secretary, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman participate in a postlaunch news conference for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
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Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
SpaceX Falcon 9/COTS 2, Charles Bolden talks to the media after launch
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COTS-2 Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after liftoff from the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. The Falcon 9 carries NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft. NASA’s Launch Services Program managed this launch. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the IXPE mission. Ball Aerospace, headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, manages spacecraft operations with support from the University of Colorado at Boulder. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the Explorers Program for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The IXPE spacecraft includes three space telescopes with sensitive detectors capable of measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays, allowing scientists to answer fundamental questions about extremely complex environments in space where gravitational, electric, and magnetic fields are at their limits. The project is a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency.
Julie McEnery, Roman telescope senior project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
Liftoff! NASA’s Space Launch System carrying the Orion spacecraft lifts off the pad at Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2022. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orion’s heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.
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Students Alex Mather, at left, and Vaneeza Rupani, stand in front of a full-scale mock-up of the Mars Perseverance rover at the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. Mather named the Perseverance rover, and Rupani named the Ingenuity helicopter. Behind them, at left is George Tahu, Mars 2020 program executive with NASA, and at right is Lori Glaze, planetary science director with NASA. The rover is scheduled to launch July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
A full-scale mockup of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is at the News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. The rover is scheduled to launch July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
Jonah Saunders, Electrical Engineering Pathways Intern, poses in front of Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 17, 2023.
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SpaceX Falcon 9/COTS 2, Charles Bolden talks to the media after launch
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Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
Students Alex Mather, at left, and Vaneeza Rupani, stand near the countdown clock at the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. Mather named the Perseverance rover, and Rupani named the Ingenuity helicopter. In view in the background is the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building. The rover is scheduled to launch July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
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Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
From left, George Alderman, NASA Deputy Press Secretary; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington; Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Julie McEnery, Roman telescope senior project scientist, NASA Goddard; and Denton Gibson, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, participate in a postlaunch news conference for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roars off the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, carrying NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft. NASA’s Launch Services Program managed this launch. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the IXPE mission. Ball Aerospace, headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, manages spacecraft operations with support from the University of Colorado at Boulder. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the Explorers Program for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The IXPE spacecraft includes three space telescopes with sensitive detectors capable of measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays, allowing scientists to answer fundamental questions about extremely complex environments in space where gravitational, electric, and magnetic fields are at their limits. The project is a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Mike Fincke, right, pose for photographs while visiting NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 19, 2022.
Commercial Crew Deputy Program Manager Ven Feng raises the Crew-7 flag on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background are other Commercial Crew Program employees. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 3:49 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. Crew-7 marks the first spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov, and the second for Mogensen and Furukawa.
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NASA astronaut Stan Love visits the Kennedy Space Center Press Site on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Later in the day, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, with the agency’s Orion spacecraft atop, will roll out from the Florida spaceport’s Vehicle assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B in preparation for the Artemis I launch – targeted for no earlier than Aug. 29. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of the SLS and Orion. In later missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
NASA Deputy Press Secretary George Alderman participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington, participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
Portrait of Ronnie Adams in front of Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building for Native American History month.
NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees Tyrell Hawkins (right) and Henry May (second from right) raise the Crew-5 flag near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 3, 2022. Next to May is his wife, and to the left is CCP Manager Steve Stich. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
NASA astronaut Stan Love, left, and Don Pettit visit the Kennedy Space Center Press Site on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Later in the day, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, with the agency’s Orion spacecraft atop, will roll out from the Florida spaceport’s Vehicle assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B in preparation for the Artemis I launch – targeted for no earlier than Aug. 29. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of the SLS and Orion. In later missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off the pad at Launch Complex 39A at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, 2023 carrying the Dragon spacecraft Endeavour for NASA’s Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station. Aboard Dragon are NASA astronauts, Stephen Bowen, spacecraft commander, and Warren Hoburg, pilot, along with mission specialists Sultan Alneyadi, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut, and Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut. Crew-6 is the sixth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station, and the seventh flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
NASA and the Economic Development Commission Signing Agreement
Students Alex Mather, at left, and Vaneeza Rupani, stand near the countdown clock at the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. Mather named the Perseverance rover, and Rupani named the Ingenuity helicopter. The rover is scheduled to launch July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
NASA and the Economic Development Commission Signing Agreement
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Mike Fincke, right, pose for photographs while visiting NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 19, 2022.
Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Manager Steve Stich, left, and CCP Contract Officer Brian Hinerth raise the Crew-7 flag on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background are other CCP employees. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 3:49 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. Crew-7 marks the first spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov, and the second for Mogensen and Furukawa.
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NASA astronaut Anne McClain talks with student essay winners Amanda Gutierrez, left, and Taia Saurer at the agency’s news center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 2, 2022. Gutierrez and Saurer won the Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest – a nationwide event involving nearly 14,000 students – for their creative visions of a pioneering journey to the Moon. The grand prize was a trip to Kennedy to watch the launch of Artemis I. Gutierrez, 17, is an 11th-grader from Lincoln, Nebraska, while Saurer, 14, is an eighth-grader from Laguna Beach, California.
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Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
Osprey at Press Site with VAB in Background
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NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees Tyrell Hawkins (right) and Henry May (second from right) raise the Crew-5 flag near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 3, 2022. Next to May is his wife, and to the left is CCP Manager Steve Stich. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
Jonah Saunders, Electrical Engineering Pathways Intern, poses in front of Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 17, 2023.
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NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Mike Fincke, right, pose for photographs while visiting NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 19, 2022.
A half Moon illuminates the sky after the launch of NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft on Artemis I from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2022. Liftoff was at 1:47 a.m. EST. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orion’s heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.
Denton Gibson, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, participates in a postlaunch news conference for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees Tyrell Hawkins (left) and Henry May (right) raise the Crew-5 flag near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 3, 2022. In the center is CCP Manager Steve Stich. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
NASA and the Economic Development Commission Signing Agreement
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Students Alex Mather, at left, and Vaneeza Rupani, stand near the countdown clock at the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. Mather named the Perseverance rover, and Rupani named the Ingenuity helicopter. In view in the background is the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building. The rover is scheduled to launch July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
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From left, George Alderman, NASA Deputy Press Secretary; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington; Jackie Townsend, Roman telescope project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; and Julie McEnery, Roman telescope senior project scientist, NASA Goddard participate in a postlaunch news conference for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope inside the NASA News Center’s John Holliman Auditorium at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff of Roman atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket occurred at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA astronaut Anne McClain talks with student essay winners Amanda Gutierrez, second from left, and Taia Saurer, white NASA shirt, at the agency’s news center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 2, 2022. Gutierrez and Saurer won the Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest – a nationwide event involving nearly 14,000 students – for their creative visions of a pioneering journey to the Moon. The grand prize was a trip to Kennedy to watch the launch of Artemis I. Gutierrez, 17, is an 11th-grader from Lincoln, Nebraska, while Saurer, 14, is an eighth-grader from Laguna Beach, California.
Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
Artemis II Crew Return to KSC
A coyote is seen on a path near a waterway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 4, 2021. The center shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. More than 330 native and migratory bird species, along with 25 mammal, 117 fish, and 65 amphibian and reptile species call Kennedy and the wildlife refuge home.
NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher await ignition and liftoff on Artemis I from the pad at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2022. Liftoff was at 1:47 a.m. EST. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orion’s heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.
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STS-134 Payload Canister Move from Press Site to Pad 39A
A group of students and their chaperones view a mural on a wall at the News Center during a tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 6, 2022. The middle-school students, from the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, are visiting the space center with the Students to Launch program. Students to Launch engages students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and creates awareness of careers in the space program.
Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. The Blue Ghost lander will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the lunar surface to further understand the Moon and help prepare for future human missions.
STS-134 Payload Canister Move from Press Site to Pad 39A
STS-134 Payload Canister Move from Press Site to Pad 39A