Chris Wolverton, Ph.D., professor of botany/microbiology at Ohio Wesleyan University, speaks on the Plant Gravity Perception experiment with members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Dan Billow, Mike Brown, and Maggie Persinger were honored May 15, 2024, during the 2024 Kennedy Chroniclers ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy. The three were honored for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program, primarily from the Florida spaceport. They were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters.
From left, Kennedy Space Center Director and STS-88 commander Bob Cabana, along with STS-88 mission specialists Nancy Currie-Gregg, Jerry Ross and Jim Newman, are recognized Dec. 10, 2018, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a 20th anniversary celebration of the first International Space Station assembly mission. The STS-88 mission paved the way for humans to live and work on the space station.
Mike Brown accepts a certificate naming him a Kennedy Chronicler during a May 15 ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Presenting the award is Burt Summerfield, NASA Kennedy Space Center’s associate director, management. Brown, a long-time space photographer, was among three reporters and industry professionals who were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program. Brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy.
NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Director Bob Cabana, at the podium, speaks to members of the news media at the NASA News Center on May 23, 2019. At left is NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. News media were at the center for an Apollo 11 Media Day. They toured several facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly and Launch Complex 39B for a look back at the Apollo missions and a look ahead to NASA’s new Moon 2024 initiative, the Artemis 1 mission and the Gateway lunar outpost.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, at the podium, speaks to members of the news media at the NASA News Center on May 23, 2019. At left is Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana. News media were at the center for an Apollo 11 Media Day. They toured several facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly and Launch Complex 39B for a look back at the Apollo missions and a look ahead to NASA’s new Moon 2024 initiative, the Artemis 1 mission and the Gateway lunar outpost.
Members of the news media begin setting up at the NASA News Center to await liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The iconic Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Control Center are visible in the background. The Falcon Heavy demonstration flight will be a significant milestone for the world's premier multi-user spaceport. In 2014, NASA signed a property agreement with SpaceX for the use and operation of the center's pad 39A, where the company has launched Falcon 9 rockets and is preparing for the first Falcon Heavy. NASA also has Space Act Agreements in place with partners, such as SpaceX, to provide services needed to process and launch rockets and spacecraft.
A red-shouldered hawk sits on a tree branch while snacking on a snake at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge encompasses 140,000 acres that are a habitat for more than 331 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles. The marshes and open water of the refuge provide wintering areas for 23 species of migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great blue herons, great egrets, wood storks, cormorants, brown pelicans and other species of marsh and shore birds, as well as a variety of insects.
Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana addresses members of the news media during a press briefing April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at Kennedy ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks to members of the news media at the NASA News Center on May 23, 2019. News media were at the center for an Apollo 11 Media Day. They toured several facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly and Launch Complex 39B for a look back at the Apollo missions and a look ahead to NASA’s new Moon 2024 initiative, the Artemis 1 mission and the Gateway lunar outpost.
A sunrise serves as the backdrop for the American Flag near the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the successful launch of SpaceX’s uncrewed Demo-1 flight test from Launch Complex 39A on March 2, 2019. The company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket and traveled to the International Space Station, where it validated end-to-end systems and capabilities in preparation for certification to fly crew.
Mike Brown accepts a certificate naming him a Kennedy Chronicler during a May 15 ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Presenting the award is Burt Summerfield, NASA Kennedy Space Center’s associate director, management. Brown, a long-time space photographer, was among three reporters and industry professionals who were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program. Brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy.
From left, Pete Hasbrook, associate program scientist, International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; Craig Kundrot, director, NASA's Space Life and Physical Science Research and Applications; Marie Lewis, moderator, Kennedy Space Center; and Patrick O'Neill, Marketing and Communications Manager, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, speak to members of the media in the Kennedy Space Center Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Jessica Jensen, SpaceX director of Dragon Mission Management, left, and Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program Science Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
At right, moderator Joshua Santora, NASA Communications, addresses the participants in a NASA Social Facebook Live event held April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. Participants, from left to right, are: Steve Jurczyk, acting NASA administrator; Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA’s Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate; Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA; NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Jasmin Moghbeli; and Kennedy Director Bob Cabana. Crew-2 is the second regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule will launch atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A to the space station for a six-month science mission. Liftoff is targeted for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 flag is raised near the News Center countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 19, 2022. The SpaceX Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon, named Freedom by the Crew-4 crew, atop is scheduled to lift off Saturday, April 23, 2002, at 5:26 p.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Dragon will carry NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft launches NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin aboard at 10:53 p.m. EST on Sunday, March 3, 2024, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the eighth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station, and the ninth flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
The sun begins to rise at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following a successful launch of SpaceX’s uncrewed Demo-1 flight test from Launch Complex 39A on March 2, 2019. The company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket and traveled to the International Space Station, where it validated end-to-end systems and capabilities in preparation for certification to fly crew.
A full-scale mockup of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is on display at the News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 29, 2020. The rover and Ingenuity helicopter are 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.
Sharmila Bhattacharya, a senior scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, discusses the Multi-purpose Variable-g Platform, developed, owned and operated by Techshot. The new test bed will be able to host six separate experiment modules with samples such as plants, cells, protein crystals and fruit flies. The test bed is one of the scientific investigations that will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule soars upward after lifting off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022, on the company’s 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 8:44 p.m. EDT. Dragon will deliver more than 5,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of NASA investigations, to the space station. The spacecraft is expected to spend about a month attached to the orbiting outpost before it returns to Earth with research and return cargo, splashing down off the coast of Florida.
Mike Brown, Maggie Persinger, and Dan Billow were honored May 15, 2024, during the 2024 Kennedy Chroniclers ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy. The three were honored for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program, primarily from the Florida spaceport. They were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One is on its way to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. The Blue Ghost lander launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 carrying 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the lunar surface to further understand the Moon and help prepare for future human missions.
Dan Billow, Mike Brown, and Maggie Persinger were honored May 15, 2024, during the 2024 Kennedy Chroniclers ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy. The three were honored for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program, primarily from the Florida spaceport. They were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters.
Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA, addresses members of the news media during a press briefing April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
Craig Kundrot, director, NASA's Space Life and Physical Science Research and Applications, speaks to members of the media in the Kennedy Space Center Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
From left, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, and Kjell Lindgren are photographed at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center during a visit to the Florida spaceport on March 22, 2023. The astronauts visited Kennedy to thank employees for supporting NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 launch. Watkins, Hines, and Lindgren, along with ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, launched to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on April 27, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. The crew remained at the orbiting laboratory for approximately six months, conducting critical science as part of the fourth crew rotation mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Mike Brown accepts a certificate naming him a Kennedy Chronicler during a May 15 ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Brown, a long-time space photographer, was among three reporters and industry professionals who were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program. Brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Jessica Jensen, SpaceX director of Dragon Mission Management, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks to members of the news media at the NASA News Center on May 23, 2019. At left is Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana. News media were at the center for an Apollo 11 Media Day. They toured several facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly and Launch Complex 39B for a look back at the Apollo missions and a look ahead to NASA’s new Moon 2024 initiative, the Artemis 1 mission and the Gateway lunar outpost.
Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA, speaks during a NASA Social Facebook Live event April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
Maggie Persinger accepts a certificate naming her a Kennedy Chronicler during a May 15 ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Presenting the award is Burt Summerfield, NASA Kennedy Space Center’s associate director, management. Persinger, a retired NASA media librarian, was among three reporters and industry professionals who were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program. Brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy.
A sunrise serves as the backdrop for the countdown clock and American Flag near the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the successful launch of SpaceX’s uncrewed Demo-1 flight test from Launch Complex 39A on March 2, 2019. The company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket and traveled to the International Space Station, where it validated end-to-end systems and capabilities in preparation for certification to fly crew.
NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard answers questions during a Mars 2020 NASA Social at Kennedy Space Center’s News Center in Florida on July 29, 2020. Standing behind him is Kennedy Deputy Director Janet Petro. The Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are 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 astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli addresses members of the news media during a press briefing April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Cheryl Warner of NASA Communications speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 flag is raised near the News Center countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 19, 2022. The SpaceX Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon, named Freedom by the Crew-4 crew, atop is scheduled to lift off Saturday, April 23, 2002, at 5:26 p.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Dragon will carry NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
At right, moderator Joshua Santora, NASA Communications, addresses the audience during a NASA Social Facebook Live event held April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. Participants, from left to right, are: Steve Jurczyk, acting NASA administrator; Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA’s Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate; Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA; NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Jasmin Moghbeli; and Kennedy Director Bob Cabana. Crew-2 is the second regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule will launch atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A to the space station for a six-month science mission. Liftoff is targeted for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022, on the company’s 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 8:44 p.m. EDT. Dragon will deliver more than 5,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of NASA investigations, to the space station. The spacecraft is expected to spend about a month attached to the orbiting outpost before it returns to Earth with research and return cargo, splashing down off the coast of Florida.
NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro.
Dan Billow, Mike Brown, and Maggie Persinger were honored May 15, 2024, during the 2024 Kennedy Chroniclers ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy. The three were honored for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program, primarily from the Florida spaceport. They were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Lt. David Myers, weather officer for the 45th Weather Squadron, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson holds a roundtable discussion with members of the media on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, inside the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Steve Jurczyk, acting NASA administrator, addresses members of the news media during a press briefing April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
Howard Levine, at left, chief scientist in the Utilization and Life Sciences Office at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and Dave Reid, a project manager with Techshot, discuss continuing research on growing food in space, as the Veggie Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System (PONDS) experiment tests a new way to deliver nutrients to plants. PONDS is one of the experiments that will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Dan Billow accepts a certificate naming him a Kennedy Chronicler during a May 15 ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Presenting the award is Burt Summerfield, NASA Kennedy Space Center’s associate director, management. Billow, a retired television broadcaster, was among three reporters and industry professionals who were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters. Brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy.
Patrick O'Neill, Marketing and Communications Manager, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, speaks to members of the media in the Kennedy Space Center Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
From left, John Ramsey, chief transformation officer for Jacobs; Jennifer Kunz, associate director, technical, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; Lorna Kenna, vice president and general manager, Jacobs; Burt Summerfield, associate director, management, NASA Kennedy; Catherine Koerner, associate administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate; Kelvin Manning, deputy director, NASA Kennedy; Shawn Quinn, manager, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems; Cliff Lanham, senior vehicle operations manager, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems; Matthew Ramsey, Artemis II mission manager; Paul Hudson, Jacobs senior vehicle engineer; Jay Grow, Boeing’s associate chief engineer for Space Launch System Launch Operations; and Bill Muddle, lead RS-25 field engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne, hold a banner to celebrate the arrival of the Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) core stage at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Journeying from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans aboard the Pegasus barge, the core stage arrived at the Florida spaceport on July 23, 2024, to be processed for flight by NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program.
NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Associate Director of Management Burt Summerfield is shown with the Florida spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building in the background on June 29, 2022. Summerfield, who began his career at the center in 1982, is responsible for management of Kennedy’s Center Management and Operations (CMO) budget. His duties include executing the center’s strategic analysis, planning, business development, and communications capability that guide key center decisions and relationships.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022, on the company’s 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 8:44 p.m. EDT. Dragon will deliver more than 5,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of NASA investigations, to the space station. The spacecraft is expected to spend about a month attached to the orbiting outpost before it returns to Earth with research and return cargo, splashing down off the coast of Florida.
Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana speaks during a NASA Social Facebook Live event April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at the Florida Spaceport, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. Also pictured, from left to right, are: Steve Jurczyk, acting NASA administrator; Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA’s Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate; and Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
Dan Billow, Mike Brown, and Maggie Persinger were honored May 15, 2024, during the 2024 Kennedy Chroniclers ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy. The three were honored for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program, primarily from the Florida spaceport. They were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine answers a question during a Mars 2020 NASA Social at Kennedy Space Center’s News Center in Florida on July 29, 2020. At left is NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. The Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are 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 Administrator Bill Nelson holds a roundtable discussion with members of the media on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, inside the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A full-scale mockup of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is on display near the countdown clock at the News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 29, 2020. The rover and Ingenuity helicopter are 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.
Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Janet Petro answers questions during a Mars 2020 NASA Social at the center’s News Center in Florida on July 29, 2020. At right is NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard. The Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are 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 Kennedy Space Center’s Director Bob Cabana, at the podium, speaks to members of the news media at the NASA News Center on May 23, 2019. At left is NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. News media were at the center for an Apollo 11 Media Day. They toured several facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly and Launch Complex 39B for a look back at the Apollo missions and a look ahead to NASA’s new Moon 2024 initiative, the Artemis 1 mission and the Gateway lunar outpost.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, at the podium, speaks to members of the news media at the NASA News Center on May 23, 2019. At left is Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana. News media were at the center for an Apollo 11 Media Day. They toured several facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly and Launch Complex 39B for a look back at the Apollo missions and a look ahead to NASA’s new Moon 2024 initiative, the Artemis 1 mission and the Gateway lunar outpost.
Maggie Persinger accepts a certificate naming her a Kennedy Chronicler during a May 15 ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Presenting the award is Burt Summerfield, NASA Kennedy Space Center’s associate director, management. Persinger, a retired NASA media librarian, was among three reporters and industry professionals who were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program. Brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy.
Mike Brown, Maggie Persinger, and Dan Billow were honored May 15, 2024, during the 2024 Kennedy Chroniclers ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy. The three were honored for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program, primarily from the Florida spaceport. They were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, NASA and industry leaders speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. From left are: Cheryl Warner of NASA Communications, Jessica Jensen, SpaceX director of Dragon Mission Management, Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program Science Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Lt. David Myers, weather officer for the 45th Weather Squadron. Kirk Shireman, International Space Station Program manager at Johnson, participated by video link. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
A full-scale mockup of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is on display at the News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 29, 2020. The rover and Ingenuity helicopter are 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.
Mike Brown, Maggie Persinger, and Dan Billow were honored May 15, 2024, during the 2024 Kennedy Chroniclers ceremony at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three brass plates bearing their names were added to the wall of the “bull pen,” where reporters traditionally gather to cover launches and events at NASA Kennedy. The three were honored for their efforts in helping tell the story of America’s space program, primarily from the Florida spaceport. They were nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of NASA officials and current space reporters.
NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson addresses members of the news media during a press briefing April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
Candace Carlisle, project manager for the Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Cheryl Warner of NASA Communications, left, Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, center, and Patrick O'Neill, Marketing and Communications manager at the Center of Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), speak to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Andrew Rush, president and chief executive officer of Made in Space, discusses his company's Fiber Optics payload, with members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
From left, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, and Kjell Lindgren are photographed at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center during a visit to the Florida spaceport on March 22, 2023. The astronauts visited Kennedy to thank employees for supporting NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 launch. Watkins, Hines, and Lindgren, along with ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, launched to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on April 27, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. The crew remained at the orbiting laboratory for approximately six months, conducting critical science as part of the fourth crew rotation mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Cheryl Warner of NASA Communications, left, listens as Joseph Hamilton of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, speaks about the Space Debris Sensor with members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
A mural painted by Florida artist Christopher Maslow adorns the northwest exterior wall of the Press Site News Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 10, 2022. Completed by the artist over the course of several months during 2021, the largescale artwork depicts notable landmarks, missions, and milestones from the history of NASA and its world-famous spaceport. The Press Site News Facility is the hub of launch broadcasts and home to the center’s TV auditorium. Along with the nearby NASA News Center, for decades Kennedy’s Press Site has been where reporters from television, radio, print, and online media outlets have monitored countless launches, landings, and other space events in order to deliver the news to the world.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, far left, conducts a briefing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 29, 2020, in advance of the launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter scheduled for July 30. Joining him, from left are Kennedy Deputy Director Janet Petro, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard. Mars 2020 will lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The two-hour launch window opens at 7:50 a.m. EDT. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy, is managing the launch.
The NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is filled with members of the news media awaiting liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A. The demonstration flight will be a significant milestone for the world's premier multi-user spaceport. In 2014, NASA signed a property agreement with SpaceX for the use and operation of the center's pad 39A, where the company has launched Falcon 9 rockets and is preparing for the first Falcon Heavy. NASA also has Space Act Agreements in place with partners, such as SpaceX, to provide services needed to process and launch rockets and spacecraft.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, NASA and industry leaders speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. From left are: Cheryl Warner of NASA Communications, Jessica Jensen, SpaceX director of Dragon Mission Management, Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program Science Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Lt. David Myers, weather officer for the 45th Weather Squadron. Kirk Shireman, International Space Station Program manager at Johnson, participated by video link. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks to members of the news media at the NASA News Center on May 23, 2019. News media were at the center for an Apollo 11 Media Day. They toured several facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly and Launch Complex 39B for a look back at the Apollo missions and a look ahead to NASA’s new Moon 2024 initiative, the Artemis 1 mission and the Gateway lunar outpost.
Countdown to Mars live commentary at Kennedy Space Center’s News Center in Florida on July 30, 2020, with hosts Derrol Nail, left, NASA Communications, and Moogega Cooper, Planetary Protection engineer at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are set to launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket at 7:50 a.m. EDT.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, at the podium, speaks to members of the news media at the NASA News Center on May 23, 2019. At far right is Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana. News media were at the center for an Apollo 11 Media Day. They toured several facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly and Launch Complex 39B for a look back at the Apollo missions and a look ahead to NASA’s new Moon 2024 initiative, the Artemis 1 mission and the Gateway lunar outpost.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Alessandro Grattoni, principal investigator at Houston Methodist Research Institute, shows the small hardware to be tested during an investigation into a drug delivery systems for combatting muscle breakdown in microgravity. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Chris Wolverton, Ph.D., professor of botany/microbiology at Ohio Wesleyan University, speaks on the Plant Gravity Perception experiment with members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Members of the news media attend a press briefing April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. Crew-2 is the second regular crew mission of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule will launch atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A to the space station for a six-month science mission. Liftoff is targeted for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
From left, John Ramsey, chief transformation officer for Jacobs; Jennifer Kunz, associate director, technical, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; Lorna Kenna, vice president and general manager, Jacobs; Burt Summerfield, associate director, management, NASA Kennedy; Catherine Koerner, associate administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate; Kelvin Manning, deputy director, NASA Kennedy; Shawn Quinn, manager, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems; Cliff Lanham, senior vehicle operations manager, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems; Matthew Ramsey, Artemis II mission manager; Paul Hudson, Jacobs senior vehicle engineer; Jay Grow, Boeing’s associate chief engineer for Space Launch System Launch Operations; and Bill Muddle, lead RS-25 field engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne, hold a banner to celebrate the arrival of the Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) core stage at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Journeying from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans aboard the Pegasus barge, the core stage arrived at the Florida spaceport on July 23, 2024, to be processed for flight by NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, far left, conducts a briefing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 29, 2020, in advance of the launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter scheduled for July 30. Joining him, from left are Kennedy Deputy Director Janet Petro, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, partially hidden, and NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard. Mars 2020 will lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The two-hour launch window opens at 7:50 a.m. EDT. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy, is managing the launch.
Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk speaks during a NASA Social Facebook Live event April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson speaks during a NASA Social Facebook Live event April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, from left, Stephanie Martin of NASA Communications, speaks to media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of SpaceX CRS-13. The flight is a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX CRS-13 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:36 a.m. EST with supplies and equipment and new science experiments for technology research.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket climbs upward after lifting off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 30, 2020, at 7:50 a.m. EDT, carrying NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover’s seven instruments 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.
Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Media gather for a news conference at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the successful liftoff of the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A. The demonstration flight is a significant milestone for the world's premier multi-user spaceport. In 2014, NASA signed a property agreement with SpaceX for the use and operation of the center's pad 39A, where the company has launched Falcon 9 rockets and is preparing for the first Falcon Heavy. NASA also has Space Act Agreements in place with partners, such as SpaceX, to provide services needed to process and launch rockets and spacecraft.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, members of the media participate with NASA and industry leaders in a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Kirk Shireman, International Space Station Program manager at Johnson, participates by video link speaking to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli addresses members of the news media during a press briefing April 21, 2021, near the Press Site countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 launch. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly on Crew-2, the second crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They will launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is set for Friday, April 23, at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022, on the company’s 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 8:44 p.m. EDT. Dragon will deliver more than 5,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of NASA investigations, to the space station. The spacecraft is expected to spend about a month attached to the orbiting outpost before it returns to Earth with research and return cargo, splashing down off the coast of Florida.
Torsten Neubert of the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, and principal investigator for the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, discusses how this Earth observatory will study severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth's atmosphere and climate. This is one of the scientific investigations that will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 at 4:30 p.m. EST, on April 2, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 14th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
A red-shouldered hawk sits on a tree branch while snacking on a snake at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge encompasses 140,000 acres that are a habitat for more than 331 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles. The marshes and open water of the refuge provide wintering areas for 23 species of migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great blue herons, great egrets, wood storks, cormorants, brown pelicans and other species of marsh and shore birds, as well as a variety of insects.
Elon Musk, SpaceX chief executive officer and lead designer, speaks to the news media during a news conference at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the successful liftoff of the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A. The demonstration flight is a significant milestone for the world's premier multi-user spaceport. In 2014, NASA signed a property agreement with SpaceX for the use and operation of the center's pad 39A, where the company has launched Falcon 9 rockets and is preparing for the first Falcon Heavy. NASA also has Space Act Agreements in place with partners, such as SpaceX, to provide services needed to process and launch rockets and spacecraft.
From left, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, and Kjell Lindgren are photographed at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center during a visit to the Florida spaceport on March 22, 2023. The astronauts visited Kennedy to thank employees for supporting NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 launch. Watkins, Hines, and Lindgren, along with ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, launched to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on April 27, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. The crew remained at the orbiting laboratory for approximately six months, conducting critical science as part of the fourth crew rotation mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
The Blue Ghost lander, part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, lifts off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a journey to the Moon. The Firefly Aerospace lander, carrying 10 NASA science and technology instruments, will help to further understand the Moon and help prepare for future human missions.
In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, from left, Ven Feng, manager of the Transportation Integration Office for the International Space Station Program, and Jessica Jensen, SpaceX director of Dragon Mission Management, speak to media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of SpaceX CRS-13. The flight is a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX CRS-13 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:36 a.m. EST with supplies and equipment and new science experiments for technology research.
A crew transportation vehicle carrying NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore drives past the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, as part of an integrated crew exercise simulation for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT). The integrated exercise involved participation from the flight crew, NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance (ULA), and allowed teams to rehearse prelaunch operations beginning roughly four hours before a targeted liftoff. CFT will be the first flight with astronauts to the International Space Station for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner is scheduled to launch atop ULA’s Atlas V rocket no earlier than mid-April 2024.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program Science Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-13 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:46 a.m. EST, on Dec. 12, 2017. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 13th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
A crew transportation vehicle carrying NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore drives past the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, as part of an integrated crew exercise simulation for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT). The integrated exercise involved participation from the flight crew, NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance (ULA), and allowed teams to rehearse prelaunch operations beginning roughly four hours before a targeted liftoff. CFT will be the first flight with astronauts to the International Space Station for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner is scheduled to launch atop ULA’s Atlas V rocket no earlier than mid-April 2024.