NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER PRESS SITE, FL- NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the agency’s cutting edge new dark universe seeking space telescope, namely the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, as we watched on a sunny Sunday sunrise Aug. 30, on site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Press Site on the Florida Space Coast. Roman is has now begun a three-month,
NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER PRESS SITE, FL- Shortly after NASA’s groundbreaking new space telescope, namely the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, I was interviewed by Fox 35 Orlando about the launch, what its was like, and the goals and science planned for Roman – on site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Press Site on the Florida Space Coast. Roman is
NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL- Less than 24 hours before liftoff of NASA groundbreaking new space telescope, namely the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, we media had the fantastic opportunity for an upclose visit to Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to set up our remote caneras and hopefully capture great images of the liftoff on the SpaceX Falcon
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After a two-day delay when last minute poor weather intervened to scrub liftoff, spectators were thrilled to watch the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy to sail skyward in over a year and a half from Florida’s Space Coast to deliver a massive next generation commercial communications satellite to orbit for Viasat. Liftoff of the 12th SpaceX
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – We were all excited for the potential of a rare, combined SpaceX and ULA launch double header on Florida’s Space Coast on Monday, April 27 – until poor weather intervened and scrubbed the liftoff of the first of the day namely the Falcon Heavy Monday morning as rain, winds and thunder rolled into the Kennedy
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN on CARNIVAL VENEZIA CRUISE SHIP, 8 Dec 2025 – Rather incredibly we enjoyed another spectacular viewing of a gorgeous SpaceX jellyfish plume forming at sunset at sea over the North Atlantic Ocean during a record setting Falcon 9 Starlink mission launch on Dec. 8 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida! Furthermore – As seen from over
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN on CARNIVAL VENEZIA CRUISE SHIP – Dec 1, 2025. If you want a chance to see a rocket launch while cruising you might consider joining the Space UpClose team of Jean Wright and Ken Kremer! Even on vacation we do space outreach wherever its reasonable So, Just hours after departing on our 2-week cruise aboard the Carnival
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
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