Experience NASA's history at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Explore NASA's rich history and even feel the rumble of a launch at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
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On this day: Space Shuttle Challenger is lost

On this day in 1986, millions watched on live TV as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded moments after launch, Eliot Wilson remembers On this day 40 years ago, NASA was preparing to launch ...
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40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster

Spectators in the VIP area at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, watch as the space shuttle Challenger lifts off Jan. 28, 1986. The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch ...
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How did the Space Shuttle launch work?

There is a long process to get the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth, primarily taking place at Kennedy Space Center ...
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Space shuttle Challenger remembered 40 years after explosion

Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited ...
Concord Monitor

‘Part of our human destiny’: The evolution of space exploration from shuttle to SpaceX

The STS-51L mission clears the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. Credit: NASA / Courtesy Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter ...
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Why Artemis II relies on a 1960s-built vehicle to reach the launch pad

NASA’s Artemis II mission relies on the 1960s-built Crawler-Transporter 2 to move the rocket and mobile launcher safely 4.2 miles from assembly to launch pad at Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX plans overnight Friday the 13th rocket launch at Vandenberg

SpaceX is planning a Friday the 13th rocket launch from California at the Vandenberg Space Force Base. Here's where to see the Falcon 9 lift off.