Divers Find Challenger Space Shuttle Wreckage Off Florida Coast
whether to recover the wreckage and "what additional actions it may take regarding the artifact that will properly honor the legacy of Challenger's fallen astronauts and the families who loved them."The Challenger erupted into a ball of flame 73 seconds after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, 1986. All seven crew members were killed, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.Subsequent investigations blamed the disaster on compromised O-Ring seals on a solid rocket booster, worsened by unusually cold temperatures.It remains one of the worst disasters in the history
NASA, US Navy Practice Spacecraft Recovery at Sea
When returning to Earth, the Orion spacecraft will slow to a mere 300 mph as it passes through the Earth’s atmosphere, eventually slowing to 20 mph before it safely splashing down in the Pacific. The astronauts will need to be picked up as quickly as possible, and that’s where Kennedy Space Center’s NASA Recovery Team comes into play. NASA’s recovery director, Melissa Jones, and her team will recover the Orion capsule and crew under the auspices of Exploration Ground Systems. After Orion completes its mission out past the Moon and heads to Earth, Jones will get
AUVSI to Hold Unmanned Systems and Robotics Exposition
600 exhibitors. Unmanned Systems 2014 will also serve as host to many technology and country pavilions; more than 100 technical, workshop, panel and poster presentations; indoor demonstration areas for air and ground vehicles; and new for 2014: on May 11, attendees can travel to the Outdoor Demo Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex in Exploration Park, Fla. AUVSI expects roughly 7,000+ commercial and defense operators, CEOs and high-level decision-makers, government and industry program managers, policy makers, scientists, researchers and students from more than 55 countries to be in attendance
NASA Flight Controller to Keynote Hi-Tech Engineering Conference
Project Mercury through Apollo 13 and beyond. Over 75 speakers will be presenting at this year's event (in Orlando, FL on March 18) filling over 15 unique industrial sessions. The presenters come from leading companies all over the world, and include but are not limited to the following: NASA Kennedy Space Center, Sikorsky Aircraft, TLG Aerospace, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI), Dupont Teijin Films U.K. Limited, Siemens Energy Inc., Behr, Argonne National Laboratory, Chrysler, Daimler, Hyundai, Valeo, Volvo, Technip, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Westinghouse Electric Company, Shell
February 2025
