Kennedy Space Center

The Space Force's reusable unmanned X-37B plane has already clocked 908 days on a single flight

Space Systems

US Space Force's X-37B space plane snaps a selfie with planet Earth

Last week, the US Space Force posted a photo online from its uncrewed X-37B space plane's seventh mission, showing the orbital test vehicle above our planet in High Earth Orbit over 22,000 miles away. Now that's a selfie worth sharing.

Starship is larger and twice as powerful as the Apollo-era Saturn V

Space Systems

Is Kennedy Space Center ready to withstand the power of Starship?

SpaceX's flagship new rocket is an absolute monster of a space vehicle. It blasted its launchpad to pieces on its maiden test flight – and Kennedy is now scrambling to prepare for a launch schedule that's unprecedented in mass and sheer frequency.

Astronaut Steve Swanson harvests some of the crop in June 2014

Astronomy

ISS-grown "space lettuce" is just as good as its Earthly counterparts

A few years ago, for the first time ever, astronauts ate lettuce that had been grown aboard the International Space Station (ISS). It has now been determined that the "space lettuce" was at least as nutritious as similar plants grown on Earth.

Visitors to NASA's Kennedy Space Center will soon be greeted by a huge high-tech path, made up of piezoelectric tiles that light up and harvest their own energy

Holiday Destinations

NASA's piezo-powered "smart path" lights up and beams fun facts to visitor's phones

In today’s concrete jungle, pavement takes up a lot of space, so we might as well cram some smarts in there. Now NASA is installing a high-tech new path that lights up, emits Wi-Fi signals and generates electricity, due to greet visitors to the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA takes it's clean room precautions seriously, but it's hard to take a journalist dressed like this the same way

Space Systems

The dirt on NASA’s clean room

New Atlas' Michael Franco finds out what it takes to enter a clean room at NASA. It involves a german shepherd, booties, a room filled with airplane spray nozzles and a line he definitely shouldn't have crossed. Oh and no nylon. Definitely no nylon.

The sample return capsule will bring between 60-2000 g (2-70 oz) of Bennu's regolith back to Earth

Space Systems

Interview: See NASA's asteroid-chasing satellite through the eyes of its principal investigator

Soon, NASA will launch another of its "hit-an-impossibly-small-object-with-an-even-smaller-object" missions when the OSIRIS-REx satellite takes flight. New Atlas got a sneak peek at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this weekend and got insight into the mission from its principal investigator.