Space
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NASA Awards Contracts for Architect-Engineer Services
NASA has selected BRPH Architects Engineers Inc. of Melbourne, Florida, Affiliated Engineers SE, Inc. of Newberry, Florida, and Nelson Engineering Co. of Merritt Island, Florida, to provide architect-engineer services for the design and other professional services necessary to rehabilitate, modernize and develop new or existing mechanical systems for facilities and ground support systems through a regionalized multiple award. The firm-fixed-price…
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NASA Awards Marshall Operations, Systems, Services and Integration Contract
NASA has awarded the Marshall Operations, Systems, Services and Integration (MOSSI) contract to SGT LLC of Greenbelt, Maryland. The company will provide the necessary management, personnel, equipment and supplies to ensure mission operations and ground systems development services for NASA programs, project offices, payload developers, educational institutions, international partner space agencies, and commercial partners at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight…
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NASA Assigns Astronaut Kate Rubins to Expedition 63/64 Space Station Crew
NASA has assigned astronaut Kate Rubins to a six-month mission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 63/64 crew. Rubins, along with cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, are scheduled to launch Oct. 14 on the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Among some of the hundreds of…
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NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon
For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley lifted off at 3:22 p.m. EDT Saturday on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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Coverage of Landmark NASA SpaceX Commercial Crew Test Flight
Grammy Award Winner Kelly Clarkson to Perform National Anthem NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight on Wednesday, May 27, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. NASA and SpaceX are targeting 4:33 p.m. EDT May 27 for the launch of the first commercially-built and operated American…
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SPACE WEEK: Apollo 13
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. My parents bought me a VHS copy of it for Christmas one year and I watched it probably dozens of times over winter break. Released in 1995 and featuring a great cast of Actors such as Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon. This movie is based off of the…
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SPACE WEEK: A Look Back at Launch Pad 39a Launches
STS-125 Launch May 11, 2009
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It’s Space Week
It’s space week here at Cerebral Overload. The last time an Astronaut took off from an American Launch Pad was July 8th 2011. On May 27th 2020, SpaceX will attempt to send the first Astronauts to space from American Soil since then. In honor of that feat, we will be sharing some great movies, audio books, and documentaries. We will…
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NASA Telescope Named For ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman
NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer, who paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe. The newly named Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – or Roman Space Telescope, for short – is set to launch in the…
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SLS core stage is ready for its next milestone
The first Space Launch System (SLS) core stage is on the test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and is going through tests before its first flight. The SLS is America’s 212-foot-tall, deep-space rocket that will take astronauts to the moon and beyond. With testing underway, the SLS is approaching its final milestone, the “green run.” The term “green”…
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