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Jean Wright left the candy business to become a seamstress for the Space Shuttle. Her job was sewing the thermal protection blankets for the space shuttles to help keep it cool during the intense hear during its missions.
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Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to visit Kennedy Space Center Thursday.
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When NASA's Space Launch System blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center for the first time, the capsule will be empty. Acting Director Robert Lightfoot announced the decision after a review of the first launch of the massive rocket.
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NASA and its academic partners are about to do something they’ve never done before: launch a spacecraft, rendezvous with an asteroid, collect a sample of regolith, or dust, from the surface and return it to Earth.
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NASA and its academic partners are about to do something they’ve never done before: launch a spacecraft, rendezvous with an asteroid, collect a sample of regolith, or dust, from the surface and return it to Earth.
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The heat shield for NASA’s Orion deep-spacecraft arrived at Kennedy Space Center, ahead of a 2018 test flight.
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The space capsule that may one day take humans to the moon and Mars is ready for delivery to Kennedy Space Center.
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For the past nine months, Florida Today space reporter James Dean has been digging into the hiring practice of three administrative assistants for the top positions at the Kennedy Space Center.
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It’s a busy week for Mars. Earlier this week, scientists announced the findings of liquid water on the red planet. And this weekend, The Martian – a movie chronicling an astronaut marooned on Mars – premiers in theaters. NASA is working on its own mission to Mars, and today, some of that cast from the movie joined those NASA scientist and administrators to talk to students about the real journey to the red planet.
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The state's aerospace authority is pressing ahead with plans for a commercial spaceport inside the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge at a site called Shiloh.Space Florida is undeterred by Sen. Bill Nelson's recent comments that the Shiloh spaceport won't happen.