KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/ CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – The biggest ever Northrop Grumman-built Cygnus Cargo ship is poised for launch from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station (ISS) on a recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket under a commercial resupply services contract with NASA. NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting liftoff for 6:11 p.m. EDT, Sunday, Sept.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA is inviting everyone to send your name around the Moon by signing up for a personalized ‘Boarding Pass’ on NASA’s Artemis II mission in 2026 – launching with the first humans traveling to the Moon in over 50 years. Myself and Jean Wright of Space UpClose have just signed up to launch our names around
TITUSVILLE, FL – SpaceX successfully achieved its 500th Falcon Booster landing after a rapid fire launch duo opened the month of September with Space Coast blastoffs on Sept 3 & 5 from pads 39A and 40 – to fortify the Starlink mega constellation of broadband internet satellites. The month of September began auspiciously with the SpaceX Starlink 10-22 mission sunrise liftoff
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – In the dead of night after the skies finally cleared a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft thundered to orbit atop a recycled Falcon 9 carrying over 2.5 tons of science and supplies for NASA along with a reboost demonstration kit bound for the International Space Station (ISS) that will be used in critical experiments to raise
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – After late day torrential rains dissipated the skies cleared just in time for a magnificent just before midnight and on time launch of the 8th X-37B military space plane mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the mostly classified USSF-36 mission for the U.S. Space Force as part of the National Security
After several weather delays the multinational NASA SpaceX Crew-11 quartet of astronauts and cosmonauts launched at 11:43 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 1 from Launch Complex 39A from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a half year science expedition aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Zena
SPACE VIEW PARK, TITUSVILLE, FL – Spectators enjoyed a picture-perfect blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying European weather satellite MTG-S1 for the European Organization for the Exploration of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) at 5:04 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 1, 2025. This Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite was carried
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Marking a magnificent middle of the night blastoff the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) private astronaut mission finally soared to orbit at 2:31 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 25 aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida – bound for the International Space Station (ISS), following a series of
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Following a series of launch delays due to LOX leaks on the SpaceX Falcon 9 1st stage and the discovery of further air leaks aboard the ISS, NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX have announced they are targeting 2:31 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 25, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL (Nov 2024) – NASA space shuttle seamstress and thermal protection specialist Jean Wright received the prestigious “Women in American History Award” as presented by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) based in Washington, D.C, during a ceremony held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center, Florida in front of the space