From sending crew members to the Worldwide House Station to launching a spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to find out if it might help life, 2024 was a busy report setting yr for NASA and its companions at Kennedy House Heart in Florida.

JANUARY
First Lunar Lander Takes Flight

The primary flight of NASA’s CLPS (Business Lunar Payload Companies) initiative lifted off with Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One lunar lander aboard the inaugural launch of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan rocket on Jan. 8 from House Launch Complicated-41 at Cape Canaveral House Power Station in Florida to review the lunar exosphere, thermal properties, and magnetic fields on the Moon’s floor. This mission turned the primary U.S. business lander to launch to the lunar floor; nonetheless, the spacecraft skilled a propulsion difficulty that prevented the touchdown on the Moon.

JANUARY
Third Personal Mission to House

On the world’s premier multi-user spaceport, the four-person crew of Axiom Mission 3 turned the third non-public astronaut mission to launch to the Worldwide House Station on Jan. 18 from Launch Complicated 39A. The crew accomplished greater than 30 analysis experiments developed for microgravity in collaboration with organizations throughout the globe.

JANUARY
Meals and Provides Delivered to the Worldwide House Station

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for the primary time on Jan. 30 from House Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral House Power Station. The corporate’s twentieth resupply mission introduced 8,200 kilos of science investigations, provides, and gear to the Worldwide House Station.

FEBRUARY
Understanding Earth’s Local weather

NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is a mission to watch and discover what makes Earth so totally different from each different planet we examine – life itself. Three-quarters of our dwelling planet is roofed by water, and PACE’s superior devices present new methods to review life on the ocean’s floor by measuring the abundances and distributions of microscopic algae often known as phytoplankton. The observations are serving to researchers higher monitor ocean well being, air high quality, and local weather change. PACE launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral House Power Station’s House Launch Complicated 40 on Feb. 8.

FEBRUARY
Intuitive Machines First Mission Lands on Moon

NASA’s CLPS initiative with Intuitive Machines’ made historical past when the Nova C-class lunar lander launched from Kennedy and later arrived on the Moon’s South Pole area often known as Malapert A on Feb. 22.

FEBRUARY
Artemis II Apply Procedures

Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian House Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, NASA’s Exploration Floor System’s Touchdown and Restoration Staff, and companions from the Division of Protection participated within the Underway Restoration Take a look at 11 off the coast of San Diego. The operation mimicked procedures that will probably be used to get well the Artemis II crew and the Orion spacecraft after their return from the Moon, with the crew exiting a mockup of Orion into a ship after which ferried to a U.S. Navy ship.

MARCH
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Quartet Launches to House Station

NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin launched March 3 from Kennedy’s Launch Complicated 39A on an eight-month science mission aboard the Worldwide House Station.

MARCH
NASA’s SpaceX thirtieth Business Resupply Mission

Analysis and expertise demonstrations, together with meals and different provides launched to the Worldwide House Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX business resupply mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft launched March 21 from House Launch Complicated 40.

APRIL
Photo voltaic Eclipse Captivates Nation

A complete photo voltaic eclipse moved throughout North America, passing over Mexico, United States, and Canada on April 8. Kennedy offered protection on air and on-line from each metropolis’s level of totality for viewers at dwelling.

MAY
NASA Welcomes New Business Resupply Spacecraft

Sierra House’s Dream Chaser arrived at Kennedy on Might 18 following testing on the company’s Armstrong Take a look at Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. The uncrewed spaceplane is scheduled to launch aboard a ULA Vulcan rocket from House Launch Complicated 41 at Cape Canaveral House Power Station in 2025, delivering hundreds of kilos of cargo to the orbiting laboratory.

MAY
Historic Marker Honors Authentic Headquarters Location

Officers unveiled a big bronze historic plaque on Might 28 to mark the situation of NASA’s Kennedy House Heart’s unique headquarters constructing simply west of the present Central Campus Headquarters Constructing on NASA Parkway.

JUNE
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Take a look at Launches First Crew

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams turned the primary crew to fly aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Starliner launched on June 6 atop ULA’s Atlas V rocket from House Launch Complicated 41 as a part of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Take a look at to the Worldwide House Station.

JUNE
Remaining NASA, NOAA GOES-R Launch

NOAA’s (Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite tv for pc U) launched June 25 from Launch Complicated 39A at Kennedy. The GOES-U satellite tv for pc is the final of NOAA’s GOES-R Sequence, and it carries seven devices that gather superior imagery and atmospheric measurements, present real-time mapping of lightning exercise, and detect approaching house climate hazards.

JULY
Barge Carries Artemis II Core Stage to Kennedy

NASA’s SLS (House Launch System) Moon rocket that may energy people to the Moon arrived July 24 at Kennedy. NASA’s Pegasus barge ferried the 212-foot-tall core stage from NASA’s Michoud Meeting Facility in New Orleans. The core stage stays on the Automobile Meeting Constructing awaiting integration forward of the Artemis II launch.

AUGUST
NASA, Northrop Grumman Launch Provides to House Station

NASA science investigations, provides, and gear launched on Aug. 24 aboard a Cygnus spacecraft from House Launch Complicated 40 as a part of Northrop Grumman’s twenty first business resupply mission to the Worldwide House Station.

SEPTEMBER
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Take a look at Spacecraft Safely Lands

An uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the house station and landed on Sept. 7 at White Sands House Harbor in New Mexico, finishing a three-month flight check to the orbiting laboratory.

SEPTEMBER
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Duo Heads to House

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov launched to the Worldwide House aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on Sept. 28 for a roughly five-month mission as a part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission. The launch was the primary crewed mission from House Launch Complicated 40. Hague, Gorbunov, together with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, are slated to return to Earth in early 2025.

OCTOBER
Cellular Launcher on the Transfer

NASA’s cellular launcher 1 made the 4.2-mile trek on Oct. 4 from Launch Complicated 39B to the Automobile Meeting Constructing in preparation for stacking the Artemis II Moon rocket. The cellular launcher had been on the launch pad since August 2023 present process built-in testing and upgrades. NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 additionally achieved a milestone reaching 2,500 miles traveled since its development in 1965.

OCTOBER
Jupiter Moon Mission Takes Flight

NASA’s Europa Clipper is the company’s first mission to review Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to see if the ocean beneath the moon’s crust has the substances to help life. The spacecraft launched Oct. 16 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complicated 39A. The Europa Clipper spacecraft will attain Europa in 2030.

OCTOBER
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Again on Earth

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, splashed down of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on Oct. 25, finishing a seven-month science mission aboard the Worldwide House Station.

NOVEMBER
New Science and Provides Despatched to House Station

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket carrying greater than 6,000 kilos of provides launched Nov. 4, from Launch Complicated 39A certain for the house station. The business resupply mission delivered important provides and helps dozens of analysis experiments throughout Expedition 72.

NOVEMBER
NASA’s Artemis II Booster Segments Take Form

Engineers and technicians with the Exploration Floor Methods Program started stacking on Nov. 20, the primary section of the Artemis II SLS strong rocket boosters onto cellular launcher 1 contained in the Automobile Meeting Constructing.

DECEMBER
File-Setting Yr of Launches

Greater than 80 launches roared into house from Kennedy and Cape Canaveral in 2024, and 2025 guarantees to deliver much more authorities and business missions to the Jap Vary.