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
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A 7x recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a commercial Dragon cargo spacecraft carrying over three tons of groundbreaking NASA science and crucial crew supplies and spacesuit hardware Tuesday evening, March 14, to the International Space Station (ISS) into crystal clear nighttime skies from Florida’s Space Coast. The NASA SpaceX resupply
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A 7x recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is primed to launch a commercial Dragon cargo spacecraft carrying over three tons of groundbreaking NASA science and crucial crew supplies Tuesday evening, March 14, to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida’s Space Coast. Weather looks to be excellent for the early evening
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Finally and after overcoming a last minute technical issue with the flow of ignition fluid into the rocket engines that scrubbed Mondays launch attempt, the four person multinational team of US, Russian and UAE astronauts blasted off on the NASA SpaceX Crew-6 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida –
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A last minute technical issue with the flow of ignition fluid into the rocket engines scrubbed the liftoff of the four person multinational team of NASA Crew-6 mission spaceflyers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida – under ideal weather conditions in the wee hours of Monday, Feb. 27. Liftoff of
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The four person multinational team of NASA Crew-6 mission spaceflyers are in the final phases of training and preparations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to their launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft now targeting dead of night liftoff overnight Monday, Feb. 27 – and
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The four-person multinational team of NASA Crew-6 mission spaceflyers arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida around lunchtime Tuesday, Feb. 21, to complete final training and preparations prior to their launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft now delayed to overnight Monday, Feb. 27 and bound for
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Precisely 50 years to the day when humans last landed on the Moon on Apollo 17, NASA’s next generation human rated lunar capsule Orion safely returned to Earth, Sunday, Dec. 11, capping a history making month long demonstration mission around the Moon and back with a successful ocean splashdown off the coast
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – In the dead of the night Sunday, Dec. 11, SpaceX successfully launched a pair of science missions to the Moon placing the commercially built Japanese HAKUTO-R robotic lunar lander for iSpace and NASA’s Lunar Flashlight rideshare cubesat searching for lunar water ice into a lunar transfer orbit from Florida’s
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Orion Artemis 1 spacecraft snapped a series of staggeringly beautiful selfie views with the cratered lunar surface and the crescent Earth rising against an eerie backdrop of the blackness of space as it conducted the critical return flyby powered (RPF) maneuver Monday, Dec. 5 – that irreversibly committed the capsule to