KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – Despite a poor weather forecast and rain showers just hours before liftoff the NASA SpaceX Crew-13 mission took flight at last as the skies mostly cleared at last – thereby allowing a beautiful blastoff near noontime of a multinational space flyer foursome bound for a half year science expedition aboard the
NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Launch Complex 39 Press Site, FL – On Launch Day Oct. 1, I was interviewed live on LiveNOW from FOX less than 3 hours before liftoff of the NASA SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station I was speaking in front of NASA’s famous Countdown Clock as it was ticking down to launch this morning
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – On March 29 and T Minus 3 days to liftoff of NASAs Artemis II Moonrocket the media enjoyed a heavenly opportunity to be up close with the 32-story tall integrated SLS and Orion stack to set up remote cameras with the mega launch vehicle at Launch complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center, in Florida.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA Artemis II Moonshot crew flew from NASA’s Johnsson Space Center and arrived today, March 27, aboard two NASA T-38 jets into NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida at the former shuttle landing strip at about 2:30 p.m. ET –in preparation for the Artemis II test flight targeting April 1 for a 10 day mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Technicians working at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed the assembly of the major core stage structures for the mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) mega Moon rocket that will launch on the agencies next Project Artemis mission – namely Artemis II – that will propel a crew of four astronauts beyond Earth orbit
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Gleeful astronomers unveiled an astounding suite of ‘First Light’ imagery captured by NASA’s massive new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealing heretofore unseen vistas of massive cosmic cliffs, star birth in stellar nurseries, star death, evolving and merging galaxies smacking into one another, and detailed spectra of an exoplanet detecting water vapor
President Biden and NASA will Unveil 1st Science Image from Webb Telescope at White House on July 11
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – President Joe Biden and NASA will release the long awaited first set of full color and spectroscopic science images taken by the massive new international James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in a pair of ceremonies at the White House and NASA on Monday and Tuesday, July 11 & 12. “Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden will
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) snapped an absolutely stunning ‘selife’ of its 18 segment primary mirror as part of the initial alignment process in progress for the primary mirror – after the mammoth international observatory arrived at its final orbital destination at the L2 Lagrange Point on 24 Jan. 2022, sliding
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Culminating an arduous two decade long development and million mile journey since launching on Christmas Day, the massive international James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally arrived at its final orbital destination at the L2 Lagrange Point on 24 Jan. 2022, sliding gently into its new home a million miles from earth –
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has at last fully unfurled from its origami like prelaunch state after engineers successfully completed the last major deployment Saturday, Jan. 8, and swung open the last of two three segment side wings to wholly unfold and lock in place its 21-foot (6.5 m) gold-coated primary