Cape Canaveral Air Force Station News

An unmanned Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this afternoon.

An unmanned Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this afternoon.

An unmanned Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this afternoon.

The Atlas V rocket is set to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5: 38 p.m. Wednesday.

CAPE CANAVERAL - Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana on Tuesday argued forcefully that the center is changing to attract commercial operations, possibly including the development of a state-run launch complex on NASA property that SpaceX is eyeing.

The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to reveal what caused a cargo ship to slam into a western Kentucky bridge over the Tennessee River.

An Atlas V rocket is scheduled to roll out to its launch pad Tuesday in advance of the planned Wednesday evening launch of an advanced GPS navigation satellite.

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public hearing Tuesday about the collapse of a western Kentucky bridge over the Tennessee River after it was struck by a cargo ship carrying a Decatur-built rocket.

Before NASA's first astronauts rocketed into space, they trained, slept, received medical exams and donned spacesuits in Hangar S. Their Mercury capsules were processed in the same facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which was built to support the nation's first satellite program.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 will no doubt sell in excess of 100 million units, but it has to answer a critical question: Is it better than its biggest competition, the SIII? The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A multi-state competition to win SpaceX's commercial rocket launches takes another step Tuesday as the spotlight turns to Texas' bid.

Two robotic U.S. rovers are back in business on Mars after a month-long solar blackout that blocked communications with engineers back on Earth.

NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn began on October 15, 1997 when the spaceship launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Photo: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen as it launches from Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday, March 1, 2013.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flies under rocket power for the first time, on Monday, April 29, 2013.

Award-winning journalist Greg Pallone has worked at News 13 for the past six years, first as a weekend anchor and now as Brevard bureau chief.

NASA PHOTO/GEORGE ROBERTS Liftoff! - A Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station March 1, carrying a Dragon capsule filled with cargo.