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Video360 virtual reality: WorldView 4 launch animation
DigitalGlobe's 360 virtual reality preview of Friday's WorldView 4 satellite launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
VideoIdled by Range facility rework for months, Vandenberg ready to launch again Friday
Resuming space launches from the U.S. Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after a half-year infrastructure outage, an Atlas 5 rocket will boost a commercial Earth-imaging bird into orbit on Friday.
VideoLive coverage: Tonight’s Delta 4 countdown and launch journal
A pair of Air Force surveillance satellites headed to geosynchronous orbit today to reconnoiter the high ground, departing Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket at 12:52 a.m. EDT (0452 GMT). It is the 375th Delta rocket flight since 1960.
VideoPhotos and video: Payload hoisted atop Delta 4 for upcoming launch
The two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP, satellites for the U.S. military are mounted aboard the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket. Liftoff is planned for Aug. 19 from Cape Canaveral.
VideoVideo: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on NROL-61 satellite deployment
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 194 feet tall and and weighing 950,000 pounds, unleashes 1.5 million pounds of thrust from its main engine and two side-mounted boosters at 8:37 a.m. EDT today to launch the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-61 satellite from Cape Canaveral.
VideoJuly 26, 1971: 45th anniversary of Apollo 15
Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden left for the Moon today in 1971 aboard Apollo 15 bound for Hadley rille with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle.
VideoPreview: New satellite for spy agency awaits launch into space Thursday
An Atlas 5 rocket carrying a classified national security satellite was rolled to the launch pad this morning for Thursday's flight to bolster the U.S. intelligence-gathering space architecture.
VideoPhotos: Payload with whimsical logo painted on nose cone lifted atop Atlas
Already shrouded in the Atlas 5 rocket's Extra Extended Payload Fairing (XEPF) aluminum nose cone, the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-61 satellite was delivered to Cape Canaveral's Vertical Integration Facility on Tuesday, July 19 and lifted aboard the United Launch Alliance vehicle for flight.
VideoJuly 24, 1969: Apollo 11 returns home
Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific today in 1969, fulfilling President Kennedy's challenge to a nation of landing a man to the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
VideoJuly 20, 1969: Lunar landing of Apollo 11
Mankind's first landing on the Moon and stepping foot on the lunar surface occurred today in 1969 by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.