All Rocketry Blogs

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: CNN - Behind the scenes at Kennedy Space Center (2009-03-11)

Behind the scenes at Kennedy Space Center Going behind the scenes at Kennedy Space Center is like visiting another planet. The employees working on the shuttle fleet speak their own language -- a ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: In an alternate reality, KSC could have been in Southeastern New Mexico (2011-11-23)

Via the El Paso Times'  Tales from the Morgue -  1961: Moon Man Shoot Would Place Eyes of World on White Sands Base . The date is 196?. The place: White Sands Missile Range. A ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Challenger and Columbia Memorial at KSC (2015-06-27)

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Bayourat Aerospace Blog: NASA's Ares I-X Motors Arrive (2009-03-20)

A train hauling rocket motors for NASA's Ares I-X mission chugged in to Kennedy Space Center today, marking a key milestone for the first in a series of test flights aimed at qualifying Ares 1 ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Pegasus XL (2009-09-30)

The next installment in my "just cut and paste rocket crap from Wikipedia" series is all about a fun little rocket, one of the smallest satellite launchers ever. "In a Pegasus launch, the carrier ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Big launch week ahead (update) (2009-10-25)

Ares I-X is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B at 8 a.m. Tuesday.  The typical Florida weather may be a problem, however.  The window is open until noon.  ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Ares 1-X ! (2009-10-28)

"Ares 1-X launch from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at approximately 11:30 a.m.. T minus 1:00 on." This is a great rocket because it is: simple, safe, fairly cheap, and never ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Preps Continue Toward a Targeted Feb. 7 Launch (2010-01-14)

Preps Continue Toward a Targeted Feb. 7 Launch Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:28:37 AM CST At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers at Launch Pad 39A began loading fuel into space shuttle Endeavour's ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Spaceflight training on F-104 Starfighters (2010-03-29)

The Southwest Research Institute reports : As part of the next phase in advancing suborbital research opportunities and their own flight preparations, Southwest Research Institute researchers ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Guenter Wendt, 85, 'Pad Leader' for NASA's moon missions, dies (2010-05-03)

May 3, 2010 — Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA's manned space program who was the last man the Apollo astronauts saw before launching to the moon, died at his home in Merritt ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Not many people get to view a Shuttle launch from this vantage point (2010-06-07)

Lt. Col. Gabriel Green and Capt. Zachary Bartoe patrol the airspace in an F-15E Strike Eagle as the Space Shuttle Atlantis launches May 14, 2010, at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Colonel ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: I've been selected to attend the launch of STS-133 at the Kennedy Space Center Press Viewing Area!!! (2010-09-12)

The Bayourat has been selected to view the launch of space shuttle Discovery (STS-133) from the press viewing area at the Kennedy Space Center just 3 miles from the launch pad. I was chosen from a ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Robonaut 2b Is Ready To Launch On Discovery STS-133 (2010-10-22)

Everyone should know by now that I am participating in a NASA TweetUp from the Press Area of the Kennedy Space Center for the Launch of Discovery on STS-133. What you may not know is that Discovery ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Gaseous Hydrogen Leak Repairs Completed. Testing To Follow. (2010-11-18)

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, technicians are completing repairs on space shuttle Discovery's ground umbilical carrier plate (GUCP). On Nov. 17, the hydrogen vent line was ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: The Ares 1... er I mean Liberty rocket (2011-02-08)

"The bottom part of the proposed Liberty rocket would be based on the solid-fueled boosters that help get the shuttle off the ground. The top half would use the liquid-fueled core-stage technology ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Ares 1 To Be Reborn As The Liberty Rocket (2011-02-08)

NASA's scrapped Ares I rocket may see new life as part of a new private launch vehicle to provide commercial flights to space for satellites, cargo – and maybe even people, the companies proposing ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Glory mission launch failure (2011-03-04)

"NASA Launch Director Omar Baez said the countdown and launch went smoothly until the point at which they should have received data indicating that the fairing had separated from the vehicle. Once ... [Read More]

High Power Rocketry: Endeavour - STS-134 (2011-05-27)

"A camera mounted on each of space shuttle Endeavour's solid rocket boosters capture the launch of the orbiter on STS-134 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on May 16, and documents the SRBs' ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Next Generation J-2X Upper-Stage Engine (2011-07-21)

CANOGA PARK, Calif., July 20, 2011 ? Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a chill test and 1.9 second ignition test of NASA?s J-2X engine at John C. Stennis Space Center, Miss. ... [Read More]

Rocket Dungeon: Today is the 50th anniversary of Friendship 7 (2012-02-20)

"On February 20, 1962, Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. Launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, he completed ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: 50 years after John Glenn's flight, The US Has To Buy Rides To Space (2012-02-21)

Reuters/Cape Canaveral, Florida Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, Nasa no longer has the ability to fly astronauts in space, a decision Glenn lays squarely on ... [Read More]

DTH Rocket Blog: XCOR to Open New Operations/Manufacturing Facility in Florida (2012-08-24)

  XCOR Aerospace announced Thursday that it would be establishing a new base at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for manufacturing and testing of the company's Lynx suborbital ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: X-37B Prepares For Return To Orbit (2012-09-27)

The highly mysterious X-37B OTV-3 (Orbital Test Vehicle) – which is, essentially, a drone boosted into orbital spaceflight – is being prepared for its third top secret space flight in ... [Read More]

Wayne Hill's Blog: Morpheus free flight 13 at KSC (2014-05-22)

Very nice flight indeed. I love watching this test flight at Kennedy Space Center at the Shuttle landing facility. Really kicks up some dust at the end. Info from youtube text: “The M ... [Read More]

Rocketeer's Corner: NARCON solves a mystery! (2021-01-31)

NAR's annual convention, NARCON, started on Friday afternoon and finished just a couple of hours ago. As usual, it was great - lots of informative and entertaining talks, good keynotes, soci ... [Read More]

Bayourat Aerospace Blog: We Are Going: Artemis I Launches (2022-11-17)

  Our Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, carrying the Orion spacecraft  launches on the Artemis I flight test , Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex ... [Read More]