NASA’s fifth core value – inclusion – was installed in the Central Campus lobby on Sept. 1, 2020. This fifth core value was added to the existing values embraced by NASA: safety, integrity, teamwork, and excellence. Technicians inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building lowered the Artemis I Orion spacecraft into the FAST cell after completing installation of the spacecraft adapter cone. This is one of the final major hardware operations the spacecraft will undergo during closeout processing before integration with the Space Launch System rocket. The last of three motors required to assemble the Launch Abort System for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight, arrived by truck at the Launch Abort System Facility. The attitude control motor, manufactured by Northrop Grumman, works with the other motors – the launch abort motor and the jettison motor -- to separate the spacecraft from the rocket in the unlikely event of an emergency during launch and steer the spacecraft carrying the astronauts to safety.
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September 11, 2020
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe (left) congratulates James W. Kennedy (right) before a group of KSC employees assembled in the KSC Training Auditorium. The occasion is the announcement of Kennedy as the next director of the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Kennedy has served as KSC's deputy director since November 2002. He will succeed KSC Director Roy D. Bridges, who was appointed on June 13 to lead NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
Jun 26, 2003
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC Deputy Director James W. Kennedy (left) and KSC Director Roy D. Bridges shake hands before a group of KSC employees assembled in the KSC Training Auditorium. The occasion is the announcement of Kennedy as the next director of the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Kennedy has served as KSC's deputy director since November 2002. He will succeed Bridges, who was appointed on June 13 to lead NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
Jun 26, 2003
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC Deputy Director James W. Kennedy addresses a group of KSC employees assembled in the KSC Training Auditorium, as KSC Director Roy D. Bridges looks on (right). The occasion is the announcement of Kennedy as the next director of the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Kennedy has served as KSC's deputy director since November 2002. He will succeed Bridges, who was appointed on June 13 to lead NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
Jun 26, 2003
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC Center Director Roy D. Bridges receives the applause of NASA officials and a group of KSC employees assembled in the KSC Training Auditorium. From left are Bridges, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, NASA Associate Administrator of Space Flight William F. Readdy, and KSC Deputy Director James W. Kennedy. The occasion is the announcement of Kennedy as the next director of the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Kennedy has served as KSC's deputy director since November 2002. He will succeed Bridges, who was appointed on June 13 to lead NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
Jun 26, 2003