For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA decided the 4th Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) Tanking Test conducted on the repaired 32- story tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Monday, June 20 was sufficiently successful to declare completion of the practice countdown and cryogenic fueling test campaign objectives despite a new hydrogen leak – and thereby paves the
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – For the first time NASA was able to fully fuel both stages of the agency’s Mega Moon Rocket with supercold cryogenic propellants and enter the terminal countdown to within 29 seconds of T-Zero on Monday June 20, despite a hydrogen leak during the fourth attempt to complete the critical countdown and
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – With the seasons 1st tropical storm on the way towards Florida right at the open of Hurricane season technicians final preparations are in progress to roll NASA’s now repaired Artemis 1 Moon rocket out from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, just past
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Repairs are in progress on NASA’s first ever Space Launch System (SLS) Mega Moon rocket and ground systems required to carry out the next attempt at the critical countdown and fueling test – known as the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) – after the 32 story tall stack rolled off the launch
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, FL – A serious leak of hazardous hydrogen forced NASA to halt the 3rd attempt to complete the critical countdown and fueling test of cryogenic propellants known as the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) on Thursday, April 14, for the first ever Space Launch System (SLS) Mega Moon rocket planned to launch
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, FL – The countdown has begun ! – as NASA restarts its new plan to proceed with a modified version of the critical countdown and fueling test known as the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for the first ever Space Launch System (SLS) Mega Moon rocket rolled out to its launchpad atop
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/CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, FL – NASA has started the critical countdown and fueling test known as the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) on April 1 as planned for the first ever Space Launch System (SLS) Mega Moon rocket rolled out to its launchpad atop the Mobile Launcher at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s first ever Space Launch System (SLS) Mega Moon rocket topped by the Orion deep space human capsule stands proudly tall at its launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) as of Friday morning, March 18, following its absolutely stunning ten and a half hour roll out from the iconic Vehicle
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s maiden Space Launch System (SLS) Mega Moon rocket has rolled out in stunning fashion from the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on a spectacular 4 mile trip to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) – with its lunar objective for the Orion deep space crew capsule movingly visible