KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA announced that technicians are repairing the leaking hydrogen fuel line on the mammoth Artemis 1 Moon rocket out at launch pad 39B which in turn will enable the team to carry out a full tanking demonstration test of super cold cryogenics to verify whether the dangerous leak has been fixed out at the pad
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A significant hydrogen fuel leak discovered in a quick disconnect fitting near the beginning of loading of cryogenic propellants forced NASA to scrub the 2nd attempt to launch the Artemis 1 Moon rocket in five days on a lunar test flight mission scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 3 from the Kennedy Space
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA announced the agency has moved up the rollout of the Artemis 1 Moon rocket from the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to its launch pad by nearly 2 days to Tuesday, Aug. 16 and is still targeting Aug. 29 as the launch date for the maiden flight of the mammoth
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China’s heavy lift Long March 5B rocket successfully launched a new science module to orbit and docked it to their growing space station, Sunday morning, July 24, with a trio of astronauts serving aboard in another major sign of the country’s burgeoning space programs and capabilities. While the rocket launch and laboratory
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA announced the agency is tentatively targeting August 29 as the launch date for the maiden flight of the mammoth SLS Mega Moon rocket on the Artemis 1 unpiloted lunar test flight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). NASA officials determined that the 4th Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) Tanking Test conducted
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Just in the nick of time from approaching thunder and rainstorms NASA’s 32- story tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was transported back from Launch Complex-39B and arrived inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Saturday afternoon, July 2, after agency officials determined that the
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo spacecraft docked autonomously to the International Space Station, Saturday morning, July 16, delivering three tons of NASA science and supplies to the 7-person crew serving aboard, just a day and a half after the stunning post sunset liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a commercial Dragon cargo spacecraft carrying nearly three tons of groundbreaking NASA science and crucial crew supplies Thursday evening, July 14, to the International Space Station and spawned a stunning ‘Space Jellyfish’ high in the skies just after sunset over NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
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
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – President Joe Biden unveiled an absolutely stunning first full color science image captured by NASA’s massive new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that peers further and deeper back in time in the Universe than ever before and in the highest resolution ever achieved, and showing thousands and thousands of galaxies in unimaginable clarity