The first integrated test flight of SpaceX’s Starship not only tested the vehicle but pushed the limits of its launch pad ...

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air ... and it was discovered that the SLC-6 launch pad — recycled from previous canceled Air Force projects like the never-launched ...

Space shuttle Discovery is set to make one last trip to the launch pad late Monday (Sept. 20) to gear up for its final mission as NASA moves closer to retiring its orbiter fleet for good.

Launch Complex 39A is perhaps the most well-known launch pad in the world ... location where the first and last launches of NASA's space shuttle program occurred 30 years apart.

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida ... to one of the two launch pads. The launch pad is made of the Fixed Service Structure (FSS) and Rotating Service Structure (RSS).

NASA and SpaceX saw this coming. The launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, formerly home to the Saturn V rocket and the space shuttle, has been the only launch facility capable of handling Dragon ...

Mission planners hoped to dedicate space shuttle Discovery to West Coast operations, with launches from Vandenberg starting in 1986. Shuttle Enterprise on the KSC launch pad in Florida for tests ...

And under that pad are a half-dozen seismic isolators ... “I actually have a rendering from 1992 showing a space shuttle in launch position,” he says. With any luck, the shuttle will be ...

Apollo 4 travels to the launch pad atop the Mobile Launcher in 1967. NASA The Space Shuttle program was able to reuse the three Apollo-era MLs with some modifications. These reconfigured platforms ...

The space shuttle flight program came to a close on ... as well as the three who died in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967 and the Columbia accident, every year at the end of January NASA ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early ... and it was discovered that the SLC-6 launch pad — recycled from previous canceled Air Force projects like ...