United Launch Alliance Readies for New Launch Vehicle
United Launch Alliance (ULA)—the Boeing/Lockheed joint-venture that provides space launch services to the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and other major players in the space industry—expects the first flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket to take place by the end of 2022. The Vulcan Centaur will replace ULA’s Atlas-5 launch vehicle—a twenty-year old Lockheed Martin design and the oldest active American rocket.
CAPSTONE—an acronym for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment—is the first mission of NASA’s Artemis program, a multi-phase, multi-year endeavor undertaken for the noble purpose of returning human beings to Earth’s moon. Departing Earth from a New Zealand launch-site on 28 June 2022, the microwave-oven-sized CAPSTONE vehicle thundered space-ward atop a Rocket Lab launch vehicle.
Jared Isaacman From SpaceX Is Expected To Attend, As Well
NASA and other space organizations will be in attendance at AirVenture Oshkosh 2022 to highlight some of their upcoming programs and priorities related to space exploration and research. AirVenture 2022 will mark the first year since 2019 that NASA will have a full exhibit on-site. In addition, NASA’s administrator, Bill Nelson, a former U.S. senator, will be in Oshkosh during AirVenture, along with other top NASA leadership.
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