For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Its been a busy weekend of prelaunch activities and accomplishing two key required milestones as the four astronauts flying on the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission bound for a six month stay at the International Space Station (ISS) and launch teams completed a full countdown dress rehearsal of the launch day events
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A Russian American trio of spaceflyers including one NASA astronaust and two cosmonauts return safely to Earth this morning seated inside their cramped Russian Soyuz capsule, Saturday, April, 17 after an action packed and science filled six month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA and SpaceX announced they are GO for launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission with four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) following the successful conclusion of the joint Flight Readiness Review (FRR) held at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The NASA and SpaceX launch teams are
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – President Biden is proposing a $24.7 Billion Budget for NASA in Fiscal Year 2022 in newly released initial funding documents from the Biden Administration. This FY 2022 NASA discretionary budget spending proposal amounts to a significant 6.3% increase over the enacted budget for 2021 amounting to $1.5 Billion and thereby indicates strong support for NASA programs
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Blue Origin successfully completed the launch and landing of their astronaut rehearsal test simulating crew flights with humans with their suborbital New Shepard launch vehicle and capsule during the NS-15 test flight mission Wednesday, April 14 from the company’s West Texas test site. Liftoff of the 60-foot-tall (18-meter) New Shepard suborbital vehicle
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Blue Origin plans to conduct an astronaut rehearsal test simulating flights with humans for the next flight of their New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle during a launch targeted for Wednesday morning, April 14 from the company’s West Texas test site. Liftoff of the New Shepard suborbital vehicle on the NS-15 mission is
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Mars Chopper Ingenuity has unlocked its rotor blades and briefly spun them up during a successful slow speed test on April 7. However, a higher speed test on Friday, April 9, ended prematurely and the team is looking into the cause and analyzing why and has therefore postponed the 1st flight test
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A Russian American trio of spaceflyers blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Friday morning, April 9, aboard a Soyuz 2.1 a rocket and safely arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) hours later kicking off a busy month of crew swaps in April and briefly enlarging its number of residents
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Ginny and Percy together on Mars in 1st joint Selfie! NASA’s Perseverance rover has just snapped her first ever selfie on Mars this week on April 6, or Sol 46 – as well as its also being the first joint selfie with the experimental Ingenuity Mars helicopter on the Red Planet – –
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – A seven time recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared to space noontime today, Wednesday, April 7, delivering the next batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites to orbit and offering up a picture perfect daylight blastoff from Florida’s Spaceport to super delighted crowds at a comfortable time for all –