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
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, FL – Everything had been looking good for a liftoff of the Axiom Mission 4 carrying 4 astronauts to the International Space Station at 8 AM ET on Wednesday, June 11, until SpaceX engineers discovered a LOX leak in the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket – upon further review of data from a static fire
PLAYALINDA BEACH/CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, FL – A SpaceX Falcon 9 went vertical overnight Saturday night June 7 ahead of Tuesday morning launch of Axiom-4 commercial astronaut mission planned to liftoff at 822 AM ET pad 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center, FL. See my photos of the integrated Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon – as seen from Playalinda Beach, Canaveral National
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