All posts tagged "Spacecraft"

ORLANDO, Fla. — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to attend the launch of the Artemis I moon rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Monday, according to a release from the White House. Harris and second gentlemen Doug Emhoff will be on hand with Harris delivering remarks ahead of the planned liftoff during a two-hour window that opens at 8:33 a.m. Harris is the chair of the National Space Council that helps inform President Joe Biden on space policy. She will also tour the space center to view some of the hardware on hand for the Artemis II and III missions that expect to return humans to orbit ......

Another large Chinese rocket body is falling uncontrollably toward Earth, U.S. space experts said, and is expected to hit soon. The Long March 5B rocket was launched in China on July 24 to deliver a module to China’s Space Station, according to a news release from the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit research center funded by the U.S. government. Now, the rocket body is making an uncontrolled reentry in Earth’s atmosphere, the release said. Predicting a time and location of reentry is difficult, experts of the Aerospace Corporation said in a news conference this week. The most recent predict......