KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/TITUSVILLE, FL – Fantastic news! In a show of continuing rapid progress – the giant SLS Core Stage is now officially stacked for NASA Artemis III earth orbiting astronaut mission scheduled in 2027 – targeted to test rendezvous and docking procedures to prototype commercial human lunar landers from both Blue Origin & SpaceX, NASA announced today, Oct. 28,
Story by Jean Wright; KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA has completed stacking of the twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) motor segments destined for use on NASA’s Artemis III mission launching to low Earth orbit targeting NET later summer 2027 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Media including myself were taken on a tour inside the NASA’s Vehicle Assembly
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – As part of the ongoing investigation into why significant levels of gaseous hydrogen were detected during the recent WDR wet dress rehearsal cryogenic propellant loading test on Feb. 2 – that forced NASA to abort the final steps of the test – the agency conducted an unannounced liquid hydrogen (LH2) partial fueling test of
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER PRESS SITE, FL – NASA’s Artemis II SLS Orion rocket destined to carry the first humans to the Moon on a history making mission as soon as early February was rolled out to launchpad 39B on 17 Jan 2026 over 12 hours stretching from dawn to dusk The rollout of the 11-million-pound Artemis II SLS/Orion rocket integrated
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – I was interviewed live on Sky News on 17 Jan 2026 about the NASA Artemis II rocket rollout to launchpad 39B as it was in progress on 17 Jan 2026 while reporting and photographing the rollout event. NASA is targeting liftoff of the Artemis II mission with an international team of 4 astronauts from the US
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – I was interviewed by WESH 2 NBC News Orlando about NASAs Artemis II preparations leading up to launch that’s now scheduled for the evening of NET 6 February, 2026 and what’s ahead in space for 2026 Artemis II involves the 1st human return to the moon in >50 years!! NASA must receive full funding to accomplish
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
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the crew of four astronauts who will blast off on the historic Artemis II mission – as ‘humanity’s crew’ on humanity’s next epic journey beyond Earth orbit and around the Moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years! The history making international flight will
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 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