Track-It Kennedy Space Center

Engineers hope to resolve an engine problem that triggered a computer-ordered launch abort at the last possible moment Saturday, delaying a critical test of the commercial spacecraft. [Read more]

The test capsule will be assembled at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA Social attendees talk online about their experience at Kennedy Space Center.

Technicians switched off Endeavour's displays and systems for the final time.

Hawthorne firm SpaceX will soon attempt to launch a craft into orbit and dock it with the International Space Station, a first for a private company. Success could alter how the U.S. runs missions.For the last half-century, space flight has been...

RS-25 series rocket engine No. 2059 is being prepared for future testing and use on NASA's new Space Launch System.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) May 18, 2012 NASA says it will modify an existing and proven Delta IV rocket second stage to launch an Orion spacecraft on an unmanned test flight in 2017. A manned flight to lunar orbit is planned for four years...

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 17, 2012 Space shuttle Discovery was powered up hundreds of times during prelaunch processing over the course of 26 years of spaceflight. But Dec. 16, 2011 was different. That morning, technicians inside NASA...

Lubbock TX (SPX) May 17, 2012 The College of Education at Texas Tech announced a NASA astronaut has been accepted to its doctoral program in education. Joseph Acaba launched May 14 for a four-month tour of duty aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-04M...

Hampton, VA (SPX) May 17, 2012 A team from NASA's Langley Research Center will have its eyes, cameras and telescopes trained on the skies for the launch of the first commercial spaceflight carrying cargo to the International Space Station. The...