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.

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

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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.