Shuttle Landing Facility

Mars 2020 rover arrives at Kennedy Space Center for July launch

February 14, 2020

Two U.S. Air Force cargo planes delivered the Mars 2020 rover, cruise stage, descent module and the Mars Helicopter to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week for final assembly, fueling and mounting atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in preparation for liftoff in July.

X-37B’s return to Cape Canaveral in images

October 29, 2019

The U.S. Air Force has released an infrared video and additional images from Sunday’s landing of the military’s X-37B spaceplane in Florida after a top secret mission that lasted more than two years.

U.S. military’s X-37B spaceplane lands in Florida

October 27, 2019

The U.S. Air Force’s reusable Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane returned to Earth early Sunday with a touchdown at NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a few miles away from where it launched 780 days ago atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Photos: Sunday’s return of X-37B after 718 days in space

May 8, 2017

This gallery of U.S. Air Force photos show technicians, wearing protective SCAPE suits, initially check for hazardous hypergolic fuel vapors around the X-37B spaceplane on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway and the subsequent tow of the vehicle to its newly-renovated hangar at the Kennedy Space Center.

Mars 2020 rover arrives at Kennedy Space Center for July launch

X-37B’s return to Cape Canaveral in images

U.S. military’s X-37B spaceplane lands in Florida

Photos: Sunday’s return of X-37B after 718 days in space

Video: Sunday’s landing of X-37B at Kennedy Space Center

X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth and makes autopilot landing in Florida

No imminent X-37B landing planned

Space Florida to take over KSC’s shuttle runway