August 26th, 2021: Blue Origin’s most recent New Shepard rocket launch, NS-17, had numerous scientific and research payloads aboard. Eleven of these payloads are NASA-supported, but one payload in particular had Odyssey Space Research support as well. The Deorbit, Descent, and Landing [...]
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 [...]
January 27, 2020: With the first launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on December 20th, 2019 and SpaceX’s In-flight Abort Test of its Crewed Dragon capsule two significant milestones have been passed on the road to launching American astronauts from US soil to the ISS. [...]
October 23, 2018: The Core Operations, Mission Planning, and Analysis Spacecraft Simulation (COMPASS), a joint development effort between JSC and JPL and supported by Odyssey Space Research, has recently passed an Operational Readiness Review for AA-2. The software will be used by [...]
December 5, 2014: The Lockheed Martin Orion spacecraft has completed its first test flight, known as Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1). Orion was launched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta-4 Heavy on a trajectory that took it approximately 3600 miles above the [...]
