For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The Crew-4 multinational team of astronauts from the US and Italy blasted off in the wee hours overnight in spectacular fashion, Wednesday, April 27, atop a recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida while seated inside the brand new SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft, bound for
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – After a prolonged departure delay due to poor weather the first ever all private astronaut crew that launched to the International Space Station (ISS) Friday morning, April 8, on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Axiom Mission 1 (AX-1) successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – SpaceX successfully completed a static fire test of their recycled Falcon 9 rocket this morning, April 20, that will launch the brand new SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom capsule with a team of four NASA and ESA astronauts on the Crew-4 science mission to the International Space Station (ISS) – achieving a
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, FL – For a brief few days in early April a pair of rockets and spaceships designed to carry humans to space were standing simultaneously vertical at the sister pads at the same time Launch Pads 39B and 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida for the first time since 2009 – namely
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The first ever all private astronaut crew successfully launched to the International Space Station (ISS) just before Friday morning, April 8, into clear blue skies on a recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule on a history making 10 day mission sponsored by Axiom Space from historic pad 39A
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The first ever all private crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is ready for liftoff Friday morning, April 8, on a recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule on a history making 10 day mission sponsored by Axiom Space carrying a four person international crew of paying
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA has approved Axiom Space for the first all private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a US commercial crew SpaceX vehicle that will launch no earlier than January 2022 – amidst a ramp up of a variety of vehicles visiting the human outpost in low Earth orbit. “NASA
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