CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – With barely 30 minutes to go to liftoff, rocket maker United Launch Alliance (ULA) abruptly scrubbed the launch of their mighty Atlas V 551 rocket carrying Amazon’s second Project Kuiper mission, Kuiper 2, due to an elevated purge temperature with the RD-180 booster engine seen in engineering observations in the final stages of
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – The most powerful version of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket poised for liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday afternoon June 16 – ready to blast the second batch of Amazons Project Kuiper broadband constellation of commercial internet comsats to orbit – setting up a new system for direct head-to-head
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – The most powerful version of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket thundered aloft from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday evening April 28 and successfully delivered the 1st batch of Amazons Kuiper constellation commercial comsats to orbit – setting up a direct head-to-head competition with the already well-established SpaceX Starlink satellite system.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – In a remarkable space event unlike anything we’ve ever seen the Fram2 framonaut quartet blasted off on a spectacular nighttime journey to polar orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 31, 2025. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon Resilience took place right on time at 946 PM ET on
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA held a Post Launch press conference following the successful liftoff of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on Friday, March 14 at 7:03 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a crew of 4 astronauts and cosmonauts. The press conference was held in
For Space UpClose 16 Jan 2025 COCOA BEACH, FL – Just in the nick of time we arrived back from traveling to witness the maiden launch of Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on the NG-1 test flight mission The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launched on the NG-1 mission at 2:03 AM ET Jan 16, 2025 from Space Launch Complex-36
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – After years of effort in the making and drawing a beautiful new illustrated children’s book about NASA Space Shuttle seamstress Jean Wright has just published. It is suitable for kids of all ages Titled “Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA’s Seamstresses” its written and illustrated by 1st time author
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – Just past midnight a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched under beautiful weather conditions carrying a NASA instrument air quality monitoring and pollution measuring instrument hosted aboard the commercial Intelsat 40E satellite for broadband internet services for North America – on its way to geostationary orbit from Florida’s Spaceport. NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the crew of four astronauts who will blast off on the historic Artemis II mission – as ‘humanity’s crew’ on humanity’s next epic journey beyond Earth orbit and around the Moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years! The history making international flight will
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