Month: August 2025

ULA Vulcan Rocket Starts New Era with 1st National Security Space Launch

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket carrying the classified USSF-106 mission for the United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) lifted off on Aug. 12 at 8:56 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This 3rd only Vulcan mission marks the first National Security Space Launch aboard the next-generation Vulcan rocket. “National security begins

NASA SpaceX Crew-11 Quartet Launches to ISS

After several weather delays the multinational NASA SpaceX Crew-11 quartet of astronauts and cosmonauts launched at 11:43 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 1 from Launch Complex 39A from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a half year science expedition aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Zena