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
President Biden and NASA will Unveil 1st Science Image from Webb Telescope at White House on July 11
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – President Joe Biden and NASA will release the long awaited first set of full color and spectroscopic science images taken by the massive new international James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in a pair of ceremonies at the White House and NASA on Monday and Tuesday, July 11 & 12. “Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden will
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA decided the 4th Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) Tanking Test conducted on the repaired 32- story tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Monday, June 20 was sufficiently successful to declare completion of the practice countdown and cryogenic fueling test campaign objectives despite a new hydrogen leak – and thereby paves the
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – For the first time NASA was able to fully fuel both stages of the agency’s Mega Moon Rocket with supercold cryogenic propellants and enter the terminal countdown to within 29 seconds of T-Zero on Monday June 20, despite a hydrogen leak during the fourth attempt to complete the critical countdown and
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The practice countdown has begun for the fourth attempt by NASA to complete the critical countdown and tanking test – known as the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) – for the now repaired SLS Artemis 1 Moon rocket standing vertical at launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s now repaired Artemis 1 Moon rocket rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the 2nd time, just past midnight Monday, June 6 in anticipation of the next attempt at the critical countdown and fueling test – known as the