Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) mission. The two-hour launch window opens at 5:16 p.m.
Posted June 18, 2024
Artemis 2
Artemis
Humans in Space
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
Space Launch System (SLS)
Media are invited in late July to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see progress on the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket as preparations continue for the Artemis II test flight around the Moon. Participants joining the multi-day events will see the arrival and unloading of the 212-foot-tall SLS core stage at […]
Posted June 14, 2024
Kennedy Space Center
“Don’t let the NASA emblem scare you away. “I was very intimidated by it because it was a childhood dream [to make it to NASA]. I saw a picture of me at Kennedy Space [Center’s] visitor center the last time I went home. I must have been five years old. I always used to tell […]
Posted June 14, 2024
Kennedy Space Center
A Florida redbelly turtle looks warily at the camera in this photo from Feb. 29, 2000. This image was captured on the grounds of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge contains 92,000 acres that are a habitat for more than 330 species […]
Posted June 7, 2024
Humans in Space
Commercial Crew
Commercial Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Kennedy Space Center
Following their safe arrival at the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will participate in a pair of Earth to space calls Monday, June 10, regarding their historic mission aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft: Known as NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the duo will speak first at 1 p.m. EDT with NASA […]
Posted June 7, 2024
General
Kennedy Space Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
STEM Engagement at NASA
Members of the Artemis Generation kicked up some simulated lunar dust as part of NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge, held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
Posted June 3, 2024
Europa
Europa Clipper
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter Moons
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Crews rotated to vertical then lifted NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft from its protective shipping container after it arrived at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 28.
Posted May 31, 2024
General
Kennedy Space Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
A grass field and tile display of NASA’s iconic “meatball” is all that remains of the structure that stood for over 50 years during America’s most monumental launches to space. Now, a large bronze plaque at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida marks the location of this original headquarters building, commemorating the early days […]
Posted May 29, 2024
Kennedy Space Center
Armstrong Test Facility (Plum Brook)
Commercial Resupply
General
Glenn Research Center
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA Centers & Facilities
As part of NASA’s efforts to expand commercial resupply in low Earth orbit, Sierra Space’s uncrewed spaceplane arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its first flight to the International Space Station.  The Dream Chaser spaceplane, named Tenacity, arrived at Kennedy on May 18 inside a climate-controlled transportation container
Posted May 20, 2024
Apollo 10
Kennedy Space Center
The Apollo 10 spacecraft stands, illuminated by launch pad spotlights, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo from May 4, 1969. It launched on May 18, 1969, with astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Eugene A. Cernan, and John W. Young aboard. The Apollo 10 mission encompassed all aspects of an actual crewed lunar landing, […]
Posted May 20, 2024
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