For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Newly confirmed and sworn in NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson announced that long-time Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Director and veteran Space Shuttle Commander Robert D. Cabana, has been tapped to become NASA Associate Administrator at agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. effective Monday, May 17, replacing Steve Jurczyk who is retiring. The
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – It was a picture perfect blastoff on ‘Star Wars Day’ May the 4th for a workhorse recycled SpaceX booster that is only the 2nd Falcon 9 1st stage to fly to space and back 9 times! – roaring aloft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center KSC) in Florida, Tuesday afternoon, on the
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The first ever built and truly mammoth core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) mega rocket arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida by barge late Tuesday afternoon April, 27, and was then rolled off the barge and into the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) Thursday morning April 29
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA has selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop the next US human lander system (HLS) to carry out the agency’s goal of landing the next Americans astronauts on the South Pole of the Moon as soon as late 2024 under Project Artemis – they would be the first humans walking on
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The maiden core stage of NASA’s mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) mega rocket set to launch on the history making Artemis 1 mission to deliver NASA’s Orion deep space human rated capsule to the Moon has safely arrived by barge at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida late Tuesday afternoon, April
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The maiden core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) mega Moon rocket is on its way by barge to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after departing the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, following successful completion of the critical and long awaited Green run hot test fire of the four
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The first ever recycled SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster utilized for a human spaceflight mission hurled the multinational NASA, ESA and JAXA veteran astronaut quartet to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six month science mission in a stunning predawn launch from the Florida Space Coast this
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Down range sea states have improved along the flight path and in the abort recovery zone for the overnight predawn liftoff Friday, April 23, of the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission on the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon stack carrying a multinational crew of four astronauts bound for the International
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Poor down range sea weather along the flight path in the recovery zones in case of an emergency abort into the Atlantic Ocean after liftoff forced NASA and SpaceX to postpone launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon stack carrying a multinational crew of four astronauts bound for the International Space Station (ISS)
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