Cape Canaveral

CAPE CANAVERAL — Cheers at the U.S. space agency NASA. The United States, with help from Europe, has conducted an experiment in which a spacecraft crashes into a space rock. The mission DART, which stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, aims to test whether ejecting a space rock if necessary…

Located in Cape Canaveral about halfway between Port Canaveral and the beach, sits the Florida Space Coasts’ only small-batch distillery. But it isn’t a story of generations of family members and centuries-old recipes handed down. No, it began with two brothers and a dream. A dream to make hand-crafted spirits…

For the past 6 weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of relocating to the Space Coast in Cape Canaveral Florida. I’ve seen 6 rocket live launches –including watching 4 humans get blasted into space–met Gen John Raymond, the Chief of Space Force Operations, participated in countless readiness mission briefings, and have…

To make sense of my story and obtain the best knowledgeable experience, please go to the beginning and read part 1 here. Part 6. British spelling. Celer log, departing Neptune … waypoint, Pluto. The minimum distance between Neptune and Pluto is 2.8 billion km, and the maximum distance is 11.77 billion km, therefore I will say that we have a 7 billion km journey ahead. This will be a much longer flight for Celer taking almost 7 hours.

Note: For the Full Guide to Running Florida’s Space Coast, see the GR Website — Florida’s Space Coast, a region stretching from Titusville/Canaveral south to Palm Bay, is so named for the NASA-launched manned space flights that depart from the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The area has become a desirable destination for its pristine beaches, cruise ports, proximity to Orlando, and tech businesses. Our guide to running on the Space Coast covers Canaveral/Cocoa Beach, Titusville, Melbourne, Palm Bay, and some inland area.

Cape Canaveral, 1969 — just over fifty Februaries ago. A road trip with my wife of not quite a year. Ran across this in old files and sat staring at it for a while. My favorite automobile of all time, the Barracuda was almost five years old and still looked…

Saturday, April 13, Kennedy Space Center…it’s the 2019 return of Yuri’s Night Space Coast underneath Space Shuttle Atlantis — “Dance underneath the Space Shuttle Atlantis” maybe the best engineered wind-up ever for a Space Coast space party. This year, Yuri’s Night Space Coast returns to Kennedy Space Center, Saturday, April 13, 8pm-12:30am, bringing astronauts, scientists, artists, and space celebrities–in costumes!–to …

Judith Resnik (astronaut) — I spent all day today at the Kennedy Space Center, located in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. I’ve been here once before. Long ago. I can still remember some of the same jokes the bus driver on the tour made. I thought that was hysterical.I…

The boys: Pictured are (from left) Nick Cosgrove, Jason Kappus, Nicolas Dromard, Brandon Andrus. PHOTO COURTESY OF JEREMY DANIEL “Growing up in Langhorne, I wanted to be many things, from a pilot to an astronaut to a baseball player and everything in between. And that’s the nice thing about growing…