For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Amidst threatening sunrise skies the 5x flown and landed SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that launched the latest batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites from Cape Canaveral was towed into Port Canaveral at sunrise Sunday, Feb. 7, atop the sea going OCISLY droneship upon which it soft landed three days prior off
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China’s first ever mission to reach Mars safely and successfully arrived in orbit around the Red Planet early this morning, Wednesday, Feb. 10, after a seven-month long interplanetary journey and marks the second leg of the arrival of an international fleet of spaceships dispatched from Earth that started less than 24 hours
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The Arab World’s history making first interplanetary mission to Mars – the United Arab Emirates Hope Probe – successfully achieved orbit today, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 10:57 a.m. ET (19:57 UAE time, 1557 GMT),” after a seven month journey bound for the Red Planet and designed to study the planets weather and climate
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The first all private crew of four men will launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a groundbreaking visit to the International Space Station (ISS) early next year – while flying under the command of a veteran former NASA astronaut and under a commercial venture chartered by Axiom Space. The historic
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – At the request of the new incoming Biden White House a 3.9 Billion Year Old NASA Apollo Moon Rock is now on display in the Oval Office as of Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2021 and confirms the powerful support of President Biden “for America’s current Moon to Mars exploration approach” – namely
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – After multiple weather and technical delays this past week the first of two back to back SpaceX Starlink overnight launches targeted for liftoffs just 1 day apart successfully streaked to orbit at last just past midnight this morning Feb. 4 for a stunning start to a Space extravaganza double header from Florida’s Spaceport
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and SpaceX announced they are targeting no earlier than (NET) April 20 for liftoff of the Crew-2 mission on the second commercial crew rotation mission from the United States to the International Space Station (ISS). The 4 person Crew-2 mission will launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, PLAYALINDA BEACH, FL – After successfully completing a static fire test Sunday afternoon, Jan. 31, SpaceX was initially targeting predawn Tuesday for launch of the next batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellite to orbit while keep an eye om poor weather prospects for both the launch site and the booster
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The ‘7 Minutes of Terror’ is approaching fast for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission with touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet at Jezero crater and starting a ground breaking astrobiology mission in search of ancient life now just under 3 weeks away on Feb 18. Perseverance was less than
For SpaceUpClose.com KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL – “Space is hard.” A commonly used expression often heard in our community. But on three separate occasions, that observation became perfectly clear. Apollo 1, January 27,1967. Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed as they were preparing for the pre-launch ‘plugs out’ test when a fire suddenly and without