June 3rd, 2021: Congrats to SpaceX for three successful missions to the ISS! CRS-20 launched on 7 March 2020. The capsule flown was previously used for CRS-10 and CRS-16, marking the third return of this capsule to the ISS. Just a few [...]
April 16, 2021: Congratulations to SpaceX on being selected by NASA to continue development of their commercial human lander as part of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2) Program! The human lander will join the Space Launch System, Orion spacecraft, [...]
April 8, 2021: Chris Couch was recognized today as Odyssey Space Research’s Engineer of the Year for 2020! The award acknowledges Chris's outstanding leadership, technical achievement, and for fostering growth in younger staff on the MEIT Space Test Program. Chris's dedication to [...]
January 16, 2021: NASA has officially transferred ownership of the Artemis I Orion spacecraft to the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) group for final preparations for launch. The transfer marks the completion of the assembly of spacecraft, which first began at NASA’s Michoud [...]
On October 13, Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle took off from the company's West Texas launch site. The launch prominently featured a payload from NASA's Safe and Precise Landing - Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) project to test lunar landing technologies. Since SPLICE [...]
August 8, 2020: Today marks the retirement of the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). Between 2009 to 2020, HTV successfully completed 9 resupply missions to the International Space Station. The vehicle, also known as Kounotori or ‘the white stork’ after the colloquial bird [...]
