Cape Canaveral News

Today, a conduit financing package was approved by the Space Florida Board of Directors to reassign the lease for Launch Complex 41 to United Launch Alliance.

A day after its launch was scrubbed for bead weather, the newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, rocketed into orbit today after lifting off from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37 at 6:51 p.m. EDT on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket.

The Ariane 5 rocket scored its 31st consecutive success today with the launc of TerreStar-1, the world's heaviest commercial satellite, for North American operator TerreStar Networks Inc.

Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 19/20 crew boarded their Soyuz return spacecraft attached to the station and moved it to a different docking port on Thursday, July 2. The operation was aimed at preparing the International Space Station to make room for docking of the Progress M-67 cargo supply spaceship to the docking ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA successfully conducted a tanking test of space shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank today, to ensure repairs to tank's liquid hydrogen vent line were successful.

Crowds began spreading out blankets and lawn chairs on the beach well ahead of the start of the fireworks show in Cocoa Beach.

For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international space station.

Today is Friday, July 10, the 191st day of 2009. There are 174 days left in the year.

Power plants and railroads and bridges to nowhere. Projects paid for by the $787 billion federal economic stimulus program range, depending on your point of view, from the sublime to the ridiculous.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA has filled space shuttle Endeavour's fuel tank in a test, and is finding everything to be leak-free. Launch controllers filled the external tank this morning to see if repairs plugged a hydrogen gas leak that prevented Endeavour from blasting off last month.

NAPLES: The Naples Fire Department has a new chief. Stephen McInerny II, 48, replaced Jim McEvoy who retired June 12th.

Canaveral Meats and Deli is one of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach's best-kept secrets.

Innovative new concept caters to active baby-boomer retirees CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Oceanic Retirement Communities of America has started taking reservations for a program that will allow seniors to own a condo on a private residential cruise ship that also provides both the Independent and Assisted Living accommodations ...

A sophisticated new weather satellite is on its way to orbit. An unmanned rocket carrying the nation's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral early Saturday evening.

Boeing Co. said today that the planned launches of its new Global Positioning System satellites is on schedule, following worries that the global navigation system could degrade or even fail .

NASA running test on shuttle Endeavour's fuel leak The Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center as it is prepared for a launch to the International Space Station.

Vic Nevins...Jacksonville...Full Moon CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's new lunar probe launched less than a week ago has already sent back some shots of the moon.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An announcement will come this morning about a multi-million dollars deal that is expected to bring good news for the Space Coast.

Jun 22, 2009 10:24 am US/Eastern TITUSVILLE. Fla. 1 of 1 Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan, seen in this screen grab, discuss being the first couple to officially tie the knot while in zero gravity.

NASA has successfully guided 12 astronauts to the surface of the moon, where they explored their surroundings and set up numerous surveys and studies.