Current and former NASA officials, space journalists, and friends and families gather in Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida during a ceremony May 3, 2019, in which four individuals were added to The Chroniclers roll of honor. The program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The 2019 Chroniclers are journalists Jim Banke and Todd Halvorson, radio broadcaster Vic Ratner and photographer Peter Cosgrove. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25.
NASA astronaut Mike Finke participates in a Virtual NASA Social Live event at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
Vic Ratner, former radio broadcaster for ABC Radio, shares a few remarks after he is inducted as a 2019 Chronicler during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on May 3, 2019. Also honored as Chroniclers were journalists Jim Banke and Todd Halvorson, and photographer Peter Cosgrove. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The group of four was selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. Their names were engraved on brass strips and added to The Chroniclers wall display in the news center and were unveiled during the ceremony.
Bill Johnson, left, retired NASA chief of Media Services at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is congratulated by NASA Public Information Specialist George Diller during a ceremony for six new honorees added to the "Chroniclers" roll of honor in the NASA News Center. Johnson, whose career at Kennedy spanned more than 45 years, was one of the six added to the Chroniclers list. Also added were Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News; Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; and Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
Kennedy Space Center Office of Communication and Public Engagement Deputy Director Hortense Diggs, left, poses with “Chronicler” George Diller during an event at Kennedy’s NASA News Center in Florida on Friday, May 4. Diller, who retired in 2017, had a 37-year career in NASA Public Affairs. “Chroniclers” recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
NASA officials take questions from members of the media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in Florida during the NASA Leadership Media Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), May 18, 2022. From left to right are Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA; NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore; NASA astronaut Mike Fincke; NASA astronaut Suni Williams. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, David Brady, assistant program scientist for the International Space Station Program, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Richard Grugel, principal investigator, NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center, speaks to members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA astronaut Suni Williams participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. 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 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Craig Covault and George Diller were honored as the 75th and 76th members of the “Chroniclers” roll of honor during an event at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on Friday, May 4. From left to right are Hortense Diggs, deputy director of Kennedy’s Office of Communication and Public Engagement, Craig Covault, and Covault’s wife, Nancy. “Chroniclers” recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
Bret Greenstein, IBM Global Vice President of Watson and IOT Offerings, speaks to members of the 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Brass plaques engraved with the names of "The Chroniclers" adorn the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the foreground are rows of stations 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. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
Craig Covault, left, and George Diller unveil their names on the “Chroniclers wall” during a gathering of the honorees’ friends, family, media, and current and former NASA officials at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on Friday, May 4. “Chroniclers” recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The two men combined for 85 years of U.S. space exploration coverage.
Richard Dickinson, division director, CBET, National Science Foundation, talks to members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Vic Ratner, left, and Todd Halvorson unveil their names, along with the names of Jim Banke and Peter Cosgrove, now on display on The Chroniclers wall at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida during a ceremony May 3, 2019. Banke, Halvorson, Ratner and Cosgrove were honored as members of The Chroniclers, which recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after lifting off from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Liftoff occurred at 3:22 p.m. EDT. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch from U.S. soil to the space station since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory.
Friends, family members and colleagues of former NASA Public Affairs team members and space journalists gather in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a ceremony in which six new honorees were added to the "Chroniclers" roll of honor. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more. The 2017 Chroniclers are Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News; Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; and Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, on Friday, July 20, 2018, Alex Young, solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch mission briefing for the Parker Solar Probe mission. The Parker Solar Probe will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was built by Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel in Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
Jim Banke, left, and Todd Halvorson were honored as Chroniclers during a ceremony May 3, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center. The duo covered the space program together for Florida Today for 12 years. Also inducted as members were radio broadcaster Vic Ratner and photojournalist Peter Cosgrove. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread the news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
A poster bearing the names and photos of the four new honorees distinguished as Chroniclers stands in Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida during a ceremony on May 3, 2019. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. From top left to bottom right are Jim Banke, Florida Today; Peter Cosgrove, Associated Press photographer; Todd Halvorson, Florida Today; and Vic Ratner, ABC Radio. The group of four was selected by a committee of their peers on March 25.
An early morning view of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. To the right is the Launch Control Center. In the background is the mobile launcher. All 10 levels of new work platforms, 20 platform halves altogether, have been installed in VAB High Bay 3 for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades to the VAB, including installation of the new platforms to prepare for the first test flight of Orion atop the SLS from Launch Pad 39B.
Brass strips engraved with the names of Craig Covault and George Diller were unveiled during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on Friday, May 4. Covault covered approximately 100 space shuttle launches and missions during his 48-year career. Diller was known by many as “The Voice of Kennedy Launch Control” during his 37-year career in NASA Public Affairs. “Chroniclers” recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Mike McAleenan, launch weather officer for the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA officials take questions from members of the media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in Florida during the NASA Leadership Media Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), May 18, 2022. From left to right are Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana; Janet Petro, director, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA; NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore; NASA astronaut Mike Fincke; NASA astronaut Suni Williams. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA, participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASA’sKennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. 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 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Across from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cement is poured as part of a construction project to upgrade the turn basin wharf. The work includes driving multiple precast concrete piles to a depth of about 70 feet to accommodate arrival of the core stage for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. When the stage for NASA's SLS departs the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, it will be shipped by the agency's modified barge to the Launch Complex 39 turn basin.
Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications, participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASA’sKennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. 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 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
An early morning sunrise serves as the backdrop for the countdown clock near the News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Todd Halvorson, former journalist for Florida Today, addresses a crowd of family and friends, current and former NASA officials, and space journalists after he is inducted as a 2019 Chronicler during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on May 3, 2019. Also honored as Chroniclers were journalist Jim Banke, radio broadcaster Vic Ratner and photographer Peter Cosgrove. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The group of four was selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. Their names were engraved on brass strips and added to The Chroniclers wall display in the news center and were unveiled during the ceremony.
Across from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cement is poured as part of a construction project to upgrade the turn basin wharf. The work includes driving multiple precast concrete piles to a depth of about 70 feet to accommodate arrival of the core stage for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. When the stage for NASA's SLS departs the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, it will be shipped by the agency's modified barge to the Launch Complex 39 turn basin.
Simon Hook, ECOSTRESS principal investigator, NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory, speaks to members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Jim Banke, former journalist with Florida Today, shares a few remarks after he is inducted as a 2019 Chronicler during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on May 3, 2019. Also honored as Chroniclers were journalist Todd Halvorson, photographer Peter Cosgrove and radio broadcaster Vic Ratner. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The group of four was selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. Their names were engraved on brass strips and added to The Chroniclers wall display in the news center and were unveiled during the ceremony.
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cement is poured as part of a construction project to upgrade the turn basin wharf. The work includes driving multiple precast concrete piles to a depth of about 70 feet to accommodate arrival of the core stage for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. When the stage for NASA's SLS departs the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, it will be shipped by the agency's modified barge to the Launch Complex 39 turn basin.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, on Friday, July 20, 2018, agency and mission leaders speak to members of the media during a prelaunch briefing for the Parker Solar Probe mission. From left are: Betsy Congdon, Thermal Protection System engineer with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Alex Young, solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Nicky Fox, project scientist with the Johns Hopkins University APL, and Karen Fox of NASA Communications. The Parker Solar Probe will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was built by Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel in Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
Peter Cosgrove was honored as a Chronicler during a ceremony May 3, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida. Cosgrove passed away earlier in 2019, and his award was accepted by members of his family on his behalf. Cosgrove was a photographer with the Associated Press, and his career in photojournalism spanned 50 years. He covered four Apollo Moon mission crew recoveries and more than 100 space shuttle launches. Also inducted as members were journalists Jim Banke and Todd Halvorson, and radio broadcaster Vic Ratner. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
NASA astronaut Suni Williams participates in a Virtual NASA Social Live event at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. 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 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Members of the media are shown CIMON, an artificial intelligence system which will assist astronauts on the International Space Station, during a briefing in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. From left are AIRBUS CIMON Engineer Philipp Schulien and Christian Karrasch, German Space Agency project lead of CIMON. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the space station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Dr. Paolo Luzzatto-Fergiz, professor, UC Santa Barbara Engineering Dept., addresses members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Bret Greenstein, IBM Global Vice President of Watson and IOT Offerings, speaks to members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Kirk Shireman, manager of the International Space Station Program, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. 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 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Current and retired NASA Public Affairs team members and space journalists gather in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a ceremony in which six new honorees were added to the "Chroniclers" roll of honor. From left to right are Jay Barbree, NBC News; Al Feinberg, NASA Public Affairs; Marcia Dunn, Associated Press; Hugh Harris, NASA Public Affairs; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; Bill Harwood, CBS News, there on behalf of the late Bruce Hall, CBS News; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Emery McGough, son of the late Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; and Center Director Bob Cabana. Hall, Harris, Johnson, Leary, Murray and Sandlin are the 2017 Chroniclers. The program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after lifting off from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Liftoff occurred at 3:22 p.m. EDT. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch from U.S. soil to the space station since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory.
A brass plaque engraved with the name of Bruce Hall of CBS News is among the list of "The Chroniclers," a roll of honor on the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Hall, one of six new inductees in 2017, died after a lengthy illness on May 2, 2017. In this facility 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. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
Representatives from NASA participate in a Virtual NASA Social Live event at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Participants are, from left, moderator Leah Martin, NASA Communications; NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana; NASA astronaut Suni Williams; NASA astronaut Mike Finke. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, on Friday, July 20, 2018, Karen Fox of NASA Communications, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch mission briefing for the Parker Solar Probe mission. The Parker Solar Probe will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was built by Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel in Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
Members of the media attend a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Members of the media were shown CIMON, an artificial intelligence system which will assist astronauts on the International Space Station, during a briefing in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the space station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Brass plaques engraved with the names of Gatha Cottee of NASA Public Affairs, Walter Cronkite of CBS News and Bill Cummins of WEZY Radio are among the list of "The Chroniclers," a roll of honor on the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this facility 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. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, on Friday, July 20, 2018, Nicky Fox, project scientist with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch mission briefing for the Parker Solar Probe mission. The Parker Solar Probe will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was built by Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel in Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
Mike Roberts, deputy chief scientist, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), speaks to members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Media and staff in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center applaud the successful landing of Atlantis, visible on the television screens, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Returning from mission STS-117, Atlantis touched down on runway 22 at Edwards on orbit 219 after 13 days, 20 hours and 12 minutes in space. The landing was diverted to California due to marginal weather at the Kennedy Space Center. Main gear touchdown was at 3:49:38 p.m. EDT on runway 22. Nose gear touchdown was at 3:49:49 p.m. and wheel stop was at 3:50:48 p.m. This was the 51st landing for the Space Shuttle Program at Edwards Air Force Base. The mission to the International Space Station was a success, installing the S3/S4 truss. The returning crew of seven includes astronaut Sunita Williams, who was flight engineer on the Expedition 15 crew. She achieved a new milestone, a record-setting flight at 194 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes, the longest single spaceflight ever by a female astronaut or cosmonaut.
Craig Covault and George Diller are the newest additions to the “Chroniclers wall,” which recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for 10 years or more. The two men were honored during a gathering at Kennedy’s NASA News Center on Friday, May 4. Posing with the inductees are, far left, Hortense Diggs, Office of Communication and Public Engagement deputy director at Kennedy; and far right, Kennedy Office of Communication Division Chief David Culp.
NASA Public Affairs Officer Greg Harland addresses a crowd of family and friends, current and former NASA officials, and space journalists during a ceremony May 3, 2019, in which four individuals were added to The Chroniclers roll of honor. The program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The 2019 Chroniclers are journalists Jim Banke and Todd Halvorson, radio broadcaster Vic Ratner and photographer Peter Cosgrove. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25.
Greg Harland, NASA Communications, speaks to members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA officials take questions from members of the media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium in Florida during the NASA Leadership Media Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), May 18, 2022. From left to right are Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana; Janet Petro, director, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA; NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore; NASA astronaut Mike Fincke; NASA astronaut Suni Williams. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
Woody Turner, ECOSTRESS program scientist, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, left, and Simon Hook, ECOSTRESS principal investigator, NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory, address members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
With a view of the Press Site countdown clock in the foreground, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Liftoff occurred at 3:22 p.m. EDT. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch from U.S. soil to the space station since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory.
An early morning sunrise serves as the backdrop for the countdown clock near the News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, an Atlas V rocket with NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-R, lifts off at 6:42 p.m. EST. GOES-R is the first satellite in a series of next-generation GOES satellites for NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. It will launch to a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere to provide images of storms and help meteorologists predict severe weather conditionals and develop long-range forecasts.
Four honorees were added as members to The Chroniclers during a ceremony May 3, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center. From left to right in the front row are Vic Ratner, Todd Halvorson and Jim Banke. A photograph of Peter Cosgrove also was placed in the front row in his memory, as he passed away earlier in 2019. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
Brass plaques engraved with the names of "The Chroniclers" create a roll of honor on the wall at the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this facility 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. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
Members of the media are shown CIMON, an artificial intelligence system which will assist astronauts on the International Space Station, during a briefing in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. From left are Bret Greenstein, IBM Global Vice President of Watson and IOT Offerings, and Christian Karrasch, German Space Agency project lead of CIMON. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the space station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Across from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cement is poured as part of a construction project to upgrade the turn basin wharf. The work includes driving multiple precast concrete piles to a depth of about 70 feet to accommodate arrival of the core stage for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. When the stage for NASA's SLS departs the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, it will be shipped by the agency's modified barge to the Launch Complex 39 turn basin.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Jessica Jensen, director of Dragon Mission Management for SpaceX, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
A poster in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida bears the names and photos of the six new honorees added to the facility's "Chroniclers" roll of honor. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more. From top left to bottom right are Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News; Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Warren Leary, The New York Times; and Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance.
Craig Covault, left, and George Diller were honored as “Chroniclers” during an event at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center on Friday, May 4. The longtime friends combined for more than 80 years of U.S. space exploration news reporting. “Chroniclers” recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
Brass strips bear the names and photos of the six new honorees added to the "Chroniclers" roll of honor in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more. The 2017 Chroniclers are Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News; Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; and Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer.
Todd Halvorson, former journalist with Florida Today, shares a few remarks after he is inducted as a 2019 Chronicler during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on May 3, 2019. Also honored as Chroniclers were journalist Jim Banke, photographer Peter Cosgrove and radio broadcaster Vic Ratner. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The group of four was selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. Their names were engraved on brass strips and added to The Chroniclers wall display in the news center and were unveiled during the ceremony.
NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana participates in a Virtual NASA Social Live event at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 18, 2022, in advance of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
With a view of the Press Site countdown clock in the foreground, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Liftoff occurred at 3:22 p.m. EDT. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch from U.S. soil to the space station since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory.
Craig Covault covered approximately 100 space shuttle launches and missions from Kennedy Space Center in Florida during his 48-year career writing about space and aeronautics. Covault, who is credited with 2,000 news and feature stories for Aviation Week & Space Technology, was installed as a member of the “Chroniclers” during a ceremony at Kennedy’s NASA News Center on Friday, May 4. “Chroniclers” recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. George Diller also earned a spot on the “Chroniclers wall” at the event.
Across from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cement trucks stand by to support a construction project to upgrade the turn basin wharf. The work includes driving multiple precast concrete piles to a depth of about 70 feet to accommodate arrival of the core stage for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. When the stage for NASA's SLS departs the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, it will be shipped by the agency's modified barge to the Launch Complex 39 turn basin.
NASA Public Affairs Officer Greg Harland, right, poses for a photograph with newly inducted Chronicler Jim Banke during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on May 3, 2019. Banke spent many years with Florida Today and covered the Space Shuttle Program and many other launches from Kennedy and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for more than 20 years. Also inducted as members were journalist Todd Halvorson, radio broadcaster Vic Ratner and photographer Peter Cosgrove. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
Ken Podwalski, Canadian ISS program manager, talks to members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, on Friday, July 20, 2018, Betsy Congdon, Thermal Protection System engineer with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, right, demonstrates the ability of the Parker Solar Probe's heat shield to protect the spacecraft. The presentation for the media took place during a prelaunch mission briefing for the Parker Solar Probe mission. The Parker Solar Probe will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was built by Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel in Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
George Diller, who retired in 2017 after a 37-year career in NASA Public Affairs, was honored as a 2018 “Chronicler” during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on Friday, May 4. Diller and Craig Covault had their names officially added to the “Chroniclers wall” during the event. “Chroniclers” recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. Diller was known by many as “The Voice of Kennedy Launch Control.”
Members of the media are shown CIMON, an artificial intelligence system which will assist astronauts on the International Space Station, during a briefing in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. Pictured is AIRBUS CIMON Engineer Philipp Schulien. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the space station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
NASA Public Affairs Officer Greg Harland, right, poses for a photograph with newly inducted Chronicler Vic Ratner during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on May 3, 2019. Ratner covered the space program for ABC Radio and was the only radio correspondent on the air live during the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, providing on-the-scene information for more than five hours that day after the tragedy. Also inducted as members were journalists Jim Banke and Todd Halvorson, and photographer Peter Cosgrove. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASA’sKennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. 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 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Brass strips engraved with the names of Jim Banke, Peter Cosgrove, Todd Halvorson and Vic Ratner were unveiled during a ceremony on May 3, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida. Banke, Halvorson, Ratner and Cosgrove were honored as members of The Chroniclers, which recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25.
NASA Public Affairs Officer Greg Harland, right, poses for a photograph with newly inducted Chronicler Todd Halvorson during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on May 3, 2019. Halvorson covered the space program from Kennedy for more than three decades and also was senior aerospace reporter at Florida Today. Also inducted as members were journalist Jim Banke, radio broadcaster Vic Ratner and photographer Peter Cosgrove. They were selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more.
Janet Petro, director, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, participates in the NASA Leadership Briefing ahead of the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, May 18, 2022. 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 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
An eastern diamondback rattlesnake warms in the sun near the NASA News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The diamondback is Florida's largest venomous snake and may exceed six feet in length. It lives throughout Florida in a variety of dry habitats, such as pinelands, scrub and golf courses. Kennedy shares a boundary with the Merritt Island Wildlife Nature Refuge, which is a habitat for more than 310 species of birds, 25 mammals, 117 fishes and 65 amphibians and reptiles.
Vic Ratner, former radio broadcaster for ABC Radio, addresses a crowd of family and friends, current and former NASA officials, and space journalists after he is inducted as a 2019 Chronicler during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center’s NASA News Center in Florida on May 3, 2019. Also honored as Chroniclers were journalists Jim Banke and Todd Halvorson, and photographer Peter Cosgrove. The Chroniclers recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who have helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. The group of four was selected by a committee of their peers on March 25. Their names were engraved on brass strips and added to The Chroniclers wall display in the news center and were unveiled during the ceremony.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Kirk Shireman, manager of the International Space Station Program, left, and Jessica Jensen, director of Dragon Mission Management for SpaceX, speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Oliver Steinbock, left, principal investigator, Florida State University, and Richard Grugel, principal investigator, NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center, speak to members of the media during a briefing 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 SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
This is the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 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.
After a post-landing news conference, members of the STS-120 crew pose for photographers. From left are Pilot George Zamka, Mission Specialist Scott Parazynski, Commander Pamela Melroy and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson and Doug Wheelock. The crew completed a 15-day mission to the International Space Station with a smooth landing on Runway 33. Main gear touchdown was 1:01:16 p.m. Wheel stop was at 1:02:07 p.m. Mission elapsed time was 15 days, 2 hours, 24 minutes and 2 seconds. Mission STS-120 continued the construction of the station with the installation of the Harmony Node 2 module and the relocation of the P6 truss.
Posters in the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida bear the names and photos of five of the six new honorees added to the facility's "Chroniclers" roll of honor. From left to right are posters featuring Scott Harris, WESH, WKMG and Central Florida News 13; Bill Johnson, NASA Public Affairs; Warren Leary, The New York Times; Bob Murray, WDBO-TV, RCA and United Space Alliance; and Phillip Sandlin, Associated Press photographer. Not pictured is the poster for Bruce Hall, CBS News and NBC News. The Chroniclers program recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy Space Center for ten years or more.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, agency and industry leaders speak to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. From left are: Stephanie Schierholz of NASA Communications,Kirk Shireman, NASA manager of the International Space Station Program, Jessica Jensen, director of Dragon Mission Management for SpaceX, Mike McAleenan, launch weather officer for the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and David Brady, assistant program scientist for the International Space Station Program. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Hortense Diggs, deputy director of Kennedy Space Center’s Office of Communication and Public Engagement, delivers remarks during The Chroniclers 2018 ceremony at Kennedy’s NASA News Center in Florida on Friday, May 4. Craig Covault and George Diller were inducted as the 75th and 76th members of the “Chroniclers,” which recognizes retirees of the news and communications business who helped spread news of American space exploration from Kennedy for 10 years or more. Brass strips engraved with each awardee’s name and affiliation were added to the “Chroniclers wall” and unveiled during the event at the NASA News Center.
David Brady, assistant program scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center left, speaks to members of the media during a briefing in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. At right is Mike Roberts, deputy chief scientist, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS). The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Members of the STS-120 crew take part in a news conference after their successful landing aboard space shuttle Discovery at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. From left are Commander Pamela Melroy, Pilot George Zamka and mission specialists Scott Parazynski, Stephanie Wilson and Doug Wheelock. The crew completed a 15-day mission to the International Space Station with a smooth landing on Runway 33. Main gear touchdown was 1:01:16 p.m. Wheel stop was at 1:02:07 p.m. Mission elapsed time was 15 days, 2 hours, 24 minutes and 2 seconds. Mission STS-120 continued the construction of the station with the installation of the Harmony Node 2 module and the relocation of the P6 truss.
An eastern diamondback rattlesnake slithers through the grass near the NASA News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The diamondback is Florida's largest venomous snake and may exceed six feet in length. It lives throughout Florida in a variety of dry habitats, such as pinelands, scrub and golf courses. Kennedy shares a boundary with the Merritt Island Wildlife Nature Refuge, which is a habitat for more than 310 species of birds, 25 mammals, 117 fishes and 65 amphibians and reptiles.
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium, Stephanie Schierholz of NASA Communications, speaks to members of the media during a prelaunch news conference for the SpaceX CRS-15 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will lift off on the company's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
The convoy carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 makes the journey from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building and drives passed the Vehicle Assembly Building on their way to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of launch during the second launch attempt of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, are scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station at 11:43 a.m. EDT.
The convoy carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 makes the journey from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building and drives passed the Vehicle Assembly Building on their way to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of launch during the second launch attempt of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, are scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station at 11:43 a.m. EDT.