PORT CANAVERAL, FL – The scorched and blackened veteran 1st stage Falcon 9 booster [B1085.17] used in the SpaceX SiriusXM SXM mission successfully launched on June 28 has arrived safely back in Port Canaveral, FL – just in time to celebrate our nations looming 250th Birthday! We saw the booster on the afternoon of July 1 after it pulled into
PORT CANAVERAL, FL – The scorched and blackened veteran 1st stage Falcon 9 booster B1078.29 used in the secretive SpaceX Starfall Demo mission successfully launched on June 23 has arrived safely back in Port Canaveral, FL I saw the booster on the afternoon of June 29 a few days after it arrived on June 25 and was pulled into Port
PORT CANAVERAL/TITUSVILLE, FL- Two days after a beautiful sunrise blastoff that caused the formation of an undulating space jellyfish high in the skies over the Florida Space Coast, the veteran and scorched first stage that propelled that Starlink mission to orbit on May 21, has arrived back into Port Canaveral See our photos taken on May 23 across from the
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN on CARNIVAL VENEZIA CRUISE SHIP – 2 Dec 2025 – An absolutely humongous space jellyfish formed at sunset over the North Atlantic Ocean on Dec. 2! – and the Space UpClose team of Ken Kremer and Jean Wright were so lucky to witness it – along with a bunch of folks we motivated to watch with
FLORIDA SPACE COAST, FL – I was interviewed live by FOX 35’s Josh Frigerio on Florida Live on March 27, 2025 to breakdown the latest space news including, the resupply mission for the ISS now delayed until fall and the first astronauts to orbit the Earth’s poles are set to liftoff next week. The unprecedented and History making Fram2 mission
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL – As a majestic eagle flew by and for the first time ever we witnessed a rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (KSCVC) – namely the SpaceX Starlink 5-5 mission launched at lunchtime Friday, Mar 24, soaring southeastwards from Cape Canaveral into virtually cloud free skies carrying
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Although NASA’s Crew-6 astronauts didn’t launch to the International Space Station early Monday morning Feb. 27 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center due to a technical glitch with the flow of critical igniter fluids, SpaceX did manage a splendid sunset launch of another Falcon 9 rocket from a nearby pad on Cape
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – Just past midnight, SpaceX lofted another 55 Starlink high speed broadband internet satellites to low Earth orbit while accomplishing the fastest turnaround between missions – five days and three hours – from the same pad! Namely complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and soaring away again on a southeasterly
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – A flock of picturesque pelicans were on patrol as another rather sooty recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sailed into Port Canaveral over the weekend and was processed by technicians for turnaround and eventual recycling for another technologically remarkable and cost savings launch from Florida’s Space Coast in the not-to-distant future. The 5x flown
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – New Year’s Eve rocket revelers celebrated early as the last launched and landed SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster of 2022 from Cape Canaveral returned triumphantly to Port Canaveral at noonish, Saturday, Dec 31, New Year’s Eve – just over three days after the stunning dead of night liftoff Wednesday, Dec. 28.