For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – Following a late, same day confirmation a 9x recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off with a jam packed nose cone loaded with 4 dozen upgraded Starlink internet satellites and two Black Sky earth imaging observation satellites just past sunset at dinnertime Thursday evening, Dec. 2 from Florida’s Space Coast
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft overnight Wednesday, Nov. 24, starting the world’s first full-scale mission to defend Earth by testing technology to smash into a potentially hazardous incoming asteroid on a collision course with our Home Planet and threatening humanity’s future – by firing
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Hearkening back to a Hollywood like thriller NASA is on the cusp of launching DART – the agency’s first ever Planetary Defense mission purposefully directed towards a near Earth binary asteroid system with a kinetic impactor to determine if its trajectory can be altered and deflected and thereby simulate saving Earth and
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL/CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – With Pelicans patrolling under gloomy overcast skies the extremely sooty 9x flown to space and back SpaceX Falcon 9 recovered booster from the Starlink 4-1 mission was towed into Port Canaveral, Thursday morning, Nov. 18, standing upright upon the droneship it landed on post launch Nov. 13 and
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – After a days delay due to totally overcast and showery weather and with a dense Saturday morning fog spread all across the central Florida region, the thick layer of ground fog lifted just enough in literally the final minutes to unveil the tip of the payload housing nose cone
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After multiple postponements for poor weather and a ‘minor medical issue’ affecting one of the four multinational crew members, the NASA, ESA SpaceX Crew-3 mission streaked to orbit during a spectacular nighttime launch of US and German astronauts beginning a half year science mission to the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After a week and a half of delays for weather and a ‘minor medical issue’ affecting one of the four multinational Crew-3 crew members, NASA and SpaceX are poised for a dramatic nighttime liftoff of the team of NASA and ESA astronauts from America and Germany for a half year science
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After several delays for weather and a ‘minor medical issue’ affecting one of the four multinational Crew-3 crew members NASA faced a dilemma juggling competing priorities for the Crew-2 vs. the Crew-3 teams of astronauts already on-board vs. those set to head to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida’s Spaceport.
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The quartet of NASA and ESA astronauts from America and Germany who will soon launch to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission arrived today, Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 26, at Florida’s Spaceport from their Texas training base to meet the media and undergo final training and preparations ahead
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA has retargeted liftoff of the SpaceX Crew-3 commercial crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS) carrying a multinational crew of astronauts from Germany and the US in the wee hours of Halloween, Sunday, Oct. 31, from Florida’s Spaceport on a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA delayed the launch by 24 hours