Out of all the locations NASA could have chosen in the U.S., why Florida?

Happy Birthday, Kennedy Space Center! On July 1, 1962, NASA established the Launch Operations Center — which was later renamed the Kennedy Space Center — on the east coast of Florida. After President John F. Kennedy famously said that...

See the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket's flight profile and first stage landing in this new animation. Credit: Blue Origin

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.



The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff as planned, touching down on the SpaceX...

NASA's Spirit Rover's 6 minutes of terror and landing on Mars.

The story of how three men made history when they became the first humans to travel to and land on the Moon.
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Unpack the forces that propel rockets beyond Earth's atmosphere. This segment breaks down the concepts of thrust, weight, and drag, explaining their interplay in achieving successful rocket launches. Learn how engineers optimize rocket...

Dr. Forrester explores several cities and towns in the United States and attractions that make those cities famous.

Dr. Forrester discusses the fact that population, culture, settlement patterns, economy, and politics influence the characteristics of places, specifically, Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.

Tim Ellis, CEO and co-founder of Relativity Space, discusses how he's banking on software-driven manufacturing to stand out in the competitive commercial aerospace field.

Bill Foster, Ground Controller in Mission Control Houston, talks about how space communication networks work and what they will look like for missions into deep space. HWHAP Episode 26.

A conversation with David J. Smith, NASA Research Scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

Relativity Space's 3D printed rocket could be launching from Cape Canaveral before the end of 2020.

Finding black rocks in the darkness of space isn’t easy, but new methods could help spot them all.

John Thornhill investigates whether big government or big business will fund the future of space exploration.

NASA Goddard hosted a live

MAVEN will examine the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail. It's scheduled to launch no earlier than 1:28 p.m. EST Monday, Nov. 18, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida....

Go behind the scenes as we unbox NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, after its arrival at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Northrop Grumman engineer Steve Turek and NASA EDGE's Chris Giersch walk us...

GOES-P, set to launch in March of 2010, is the last in the N-O-P series of weather satellites and will continue providing critical data for predicting Earth and space weather. This video takes you on a tour of some of the critical...

This video is a lesson about the physics of rockets and how engineers design and build them. The teacher explains concepts such as Newton's three laws of motion, the role of forces in rocket propulsion, the importance of thrust, weight,...

This clip explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of Florida.

Every American who lived through the '80s remembers the Challenger explosion. But what happened to cause the famous national tragedy? How could such a catastrophe happen when NASA so meticulously checks and double checks all the...

An update on our Artemis I mission, test firing an Artemis rocket engine, and a resupply mission delivers to the space station … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Producer: Andre Valentine Editor: David Anderson...

The new satellite model, called GPS III, is the first of 32 planned GPS III satellites that will replace older ones currently in orbit.