January 12, 2015: SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS) this morning, on the fifth of twelve planned missions under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. After a nominal launch from Cape Canaveral on January 10 [...]
December 5, 2014: The Lockheed Martin Orion spacecraft has completed its first test flight, known as Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1). Orion was launched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta-4 Heavy on a trajectory that took it approximately 3600 miles above the [...]
October 25, 2014: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has completed the fourth of its twelve Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS). Odyssey engineers supported from the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Complex as release and departure from ISS [...]
September 23, 2014: SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft has successfully rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS), carrying hundreds of kilograms of supplies and experiments including a 3D printer and live rodent "mousetronauts", the first living mammals to be launched on a commercial [...]
September 1, 2014: The Partition Level Application Test for Orion (PLATO) software tool was recently featured in NASA Tech Briefs: PLATO Tech Brief. PLATO is a software tool developed by NASA Johnson Space Center's ER6 branch that allows sending of data and [...]
August 15, 2014: The Orbital Sciences Cygnus Orb-2 vehicle successfully launched on an Antares rocket on July 13th from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops, Virginia. Once on orbit, it rendezvoused with and berthed to the International Space Station (ISS) on July [...]