KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A beautiful and extremely loud and bright late afternoon April 1 blastoff on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion Moon rocket propelled the Artemis II astronaut quartet on NASA’s history making journey hurling the first humans to the Moon and back in more than 50 years – since NASA’s Apollo era. The successful Artemis
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – An Awesome Artemis Rainbow magically appeared over the Space Coast accompanying the start of the countdown clock for NASA’s Artemis II test flight – which officially began ticking down at 4:44 p.m. EDT to a targeted launch time of 6:24 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1 – shortly putting on a magnificent display! On March 30 and T Minus
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After a multi-hour delay for very gusty winds at the Cape launch site, SpaceX utilized a back up launch window later the same day and launched the next batch of Starlink internet satellites early Thursday afternoon, April 21, to low Earth orbit on a veteran recycled first stage booster from Florida’s