NASA recently announced the awarding of a facilities engineering design and inspection services contract to Vanguard Pacific of Foley. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract is to provide architecture and engineering design services at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. The contract will go into effect on August 1, 2022, and is valued at $25.6 million with […]
Following the analysis of data gathered from the wet dress rehearsal on Monday, June 20, NASA officials from Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, and NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. announced in a media teleconference held on Friday that the testing campaign is complete. “During the wet dress rehearsal activities, we have incrementally added […]
After a very long day of work, the Artemis team has earned a well-deserved chance to appreciate a job well done following the completion of its fourth wet dress rehearsal. NASA administrators announced during the post-wet dress teleconference that although the latest exercise wasn’t without a few hiccups, all of the critical targets had been […]
Boeing, Alabama’s largest aerospace company, commemorated its 60th year of operation in Huntsville with a presentation held on Tuesday, June 7 at the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce. Chamber president and CEO Chip Cherry kicked off the event, noting that Boeing secured its first business license in Huntsville in 1962 and describing the company as […]
Huntsville, AL – Yesterday marks the 5th anniversary of Teledyne Brown Engineering’s (TBE) International Space Station (ISS)-based Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES). MUSES is a precision-pointing platform for earth-viewing instruments, such as high-resolution digital cameras and hyperspectral imagers. MUSES can accommodate four payloads simultaneously and the ISS can robotically change, upgrade, and service those instruments. Teledyne Brown is responsible for […]
In a media teleconference held on Friday at Kennedy Space Center, NASA officials discussed the status of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the SLS and Orion spacecraft in advance of the uncrewed Artemis I lunar mission. Tom Whitmeyer of the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.; Senior Vehicle Operations Manager Cliff […]
After two failed previous attempts, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft successfully entered orbit on Thursday night after separating from the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. An excited crowd gathered in the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s exhibition hall for the viewing event. Prior to the countdown, guests explored the USSRC’s newest exhibit, “Planet Pioneers,” […]
It’s official! The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued the long-anticipated license to the Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority to operate the Huntsville International Airport as a commercial space reentry site. The license will permit the airport to become a landing site for Sierra Space Dream Chaser vehicles returning from future NASA resupply missions to the […]
Longtime city residents will recognize the thundering sounds and the shaking of area structures when NASA’s historic 4670 Test Stand at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is once again ready to play a key role in the country’s space exploration. The 300-foot tall stand, first employed in 1965 to support the Apollo program’s Saturn V […]
On Wednesday, April 20, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) kicked off a series of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke landing on the Moon. Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke, the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon, was the guest of […]
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