Covering All Things Florida
In the quiet, expansive steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Expedition 70 to the ISS officially ended. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya from Belarus, concluded their space mission with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at 3:17 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 6 (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time).
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – SpaceX, in collaboration with NASA, is gearing up for its 30th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket, carrying an uncrewed SpaceX Cargo Dragon, is slated for Thursday, March 21, at 4:55 p.m. EDT.
The good folks over at Cosmic Perspective / Everyday Astronaut captured some spectacular footage of the IFT-3 launch from their multiple remote cameras last week. No doubt, it’s the best to date. Well done!
In a recent Department of The Air Force announcement, the Air Force said environmental studies are underway for a potential new launch facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station or Kennedy Space Center.
Late on Tuesday evening, SpaceX, announced the postponement of the planned launch of a robotic moon lander, marking a day’s delay in what in the highly anticipated mission. The launch, initially scheduled for early Wednesday, was scrubbed less than two hours before its set liftoff time due to technical concerns, with the launch now rescheduled for at least a day later.
The Axiom 3 mission has ended safely off the Florida coast near Daytona Beach. Michael López-Alegría, Commander of the the AX3 mission, reported a few minutes after the splashdown “flying SpaceX was our pleasure” and that “all four crew members are feeling well.”
In the early hours of Thursday, NASA’s latest Earth science mission began its journey to space, marking the start of a mission to better our understanding of the planet’s marine life and atmospheric conditions.
By Jim Turner, Florida News Service. Reprinted with permission.
TALLAHASSEE — With Florida rocket launches in 2024 expected to top a record set last year, the state’s aerospace agency is seeking more money from lawmakers and is backing an expansion of spaceport designations.
Washington, D.C.– NASA said in a news release last week that their latest climate change analysis has determined that 2023 was the warmest year on record for Earth’s average surface temperature.
China’s top-secret Shenlong space plane, on its third mission, has released six enigmatic objects into Earth’s orbit, stirring up curiosity and speculation in the global space community.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Floridians prepare to welcome 2024, a raft of new Florida laws and amendments to existing ones are set to come into effect.
