For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – In another remarkable first for a mission already full of stunning firsts all four landing legs were retracted today while still on the droneship upon which the commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 1st stage landed at sea following its first ever launch of humans to space just days ago on May 30 –
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Three days after briefly departing Earth on a historic mission launching humans from US soil for the 1st time in 9 years and for the 1st time on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket the booster that successfully and safely delivered a pair of veteran NASA astronauts to the ISS returned to Port
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – A pair of veteran NASA astronauts flying aboard a commercial SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft safely docked at the International Space Station ISS) this Sunday morning just 19 hours after the first human launch from US soil for the first time in nine years on a history making and flawless blastoff from the Florida
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Following approval from the NASA and SpaceX teams after the Launch Readiness Review on Monday and final preflight checks Tuesday the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are now poised for liftoff of the historic 1st human launch from US soil in nearly a decade since the retirement of NASA’s Space
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – In one of their final major pre-launch training exercises NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley participated in a thorough countdown dry dress rehearsal today, May 23, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida of the exact timeline of events they will run through on their history making launch aboard the 1st
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Following a two day long Flight Readiness Review and a successful test firing of the critical 1st stage engines later this afternoon, the NASA and SpaceX teams gave the GO for launch of the first commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and integrated Crew Dragon spacecraft that will launch humans to space on
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The first SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and integrated Crew Dragon spacecraft that will launch humans to space on its historic 1st astronaut mission has rolled out this morning May 21 to the pad and gone vertical ahead of blastoff still slated for next week Wednesday, May 27 from the Florida Space Coast
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the Crew Dragon Demo-2 spacecraft, with NASA astronauts aboard, on the company’s second demonstration flight and first crewed flight to the International Space Station on May 27, 2020. Credits: SpaceX For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – With just over three weeks to go until the history making launch of
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Despite a slightly harder landing than normal landing on the OCISLY droneship minutes after last weeks Starlink mission blastoff on Apr. 22, SpaceX workers successfully retracted all four of the recycled Falcon 9 1st stage landing legs in a single afternoon in Port Canaveral on Tuesday April 28, after craning it off
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Under hazy Space Coast skies the quadruply launched and landed recovered Falcon 9 1st stage booster triumphantly sailed into Port Canaveral atop the OCISLY droneship Sunday morning April 26, at the channel entrance past Jetty Park Pier – nearly four days after the spectacular launch of their next batch of their 60