Photo Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls (click on image to enlarge it)
Artemis 1, the most powerful rocket in the world to ever successfully fly, launches on Wednesday November 16, 2022 sending Orion to the Moon. Check out this NASA news release about the mission.
Crew Dragon launches atop the Falcon 9 at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday May 30, 2020. Photo Credit: NASA.
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley head up to the International Space Station in the Crew Dragon on the Falcon 9 for the first launch from American soil since 2011. The lift off was at 3:22 p.m. EDT May 30, 2020 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They docked successfully with the ISS on May 31, 2020 approximately 19 hours after reaching orbit. Below are some videos of the launch and of the arrival of the Crew Dragon at the ISS.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission launched on August 11th from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on its mission to study the Sun's corona. For information on the mission click here, and click on the video below to see the launch.
On the very long video above, see lots of amazing views of Earth from orbit several thousand kilometers above earth from the SpaceX spacecraft with Elon Musk's old $100,000 cherry red Tesla Roadster with a dummy in its driver's seat named "Starman." After orbiting for a few hours after the launch yesterday, the spacecraft has since had a successful burn to take it out of Earth orbit and on its way towards Mars. It will continue indefinitely on an orbit that will keep it going around the sun and back again towards Mar's orbit and the asteroid belt.
The launch takes place at about 20 minutes into the video. The beginning of the amazing touch down of two of the boosters on pads at Cape Canaveral starts at around 29 minutes into the video as they separate simultaneously from the spacecraft, with the actual touch down of the boosters at 38 minutes.
Eugene Cernan died this month on Monday, January 16, 2017. He flew three times in space including two times to the moon. He was the second American to walk in space and the last human to leave the lunar surface. For more information on Gene Cernan's life click here.
Euene Cernan in the Lunar Module After his Second Moon Walk on the Appollo 17 Mission. Photo Credit: NASA
Eugene Cernan on his Second Moonwalk on the Appollo 17 Mission. Photo Credit: NASA.
John Glenn died last week on Thursday December 8, 2016 at age 95. He was one of the original seven original American astronauts and on February 20, 1962 was the first American to orbit the Earth. He also was the oldest person to fly in space when he lifted off on the space shuttle Discovery for almost 9 days on October 29, 1998. Some of his many other accomplishments include being a fighter pilot in both World War II and the Korean War, being a test pilot setting a transcontinental speed record in 1957 and later serving four terms as a U.S. Senator. For more information about John Glenn's amazing life see the link below:
Image Credit: NASA / Goddard / Arizona State University
The image above was created from a series of images taken October 12, 2015 by the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) when the LRO was about 83 miles above the moon's farside crater Compton.
Photo Credit: NASA / Joel Kowsky
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Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (Russia), Flight Engineer Tim Kopra (USA) and Flight Engineer Tim Peake (United Kingdom) launch to the International Space Station on the Soyuz TMA-19M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday afternoon, December 15, 2015.
Photo Credit: NASA / Joel Kowsky
A camera on board the ISS captured the view below of the Soyuz climbing towards the Space Station.
Image Credit: NASA TV
In the below photo, the Expedition 46 Soyuz is approaching the ISS for docking on December 15, 2015. Commander Malenchenko had to manually dock the Soyuz after the automatic docking controls failed.
Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly took this selfie on his first spacewalk on October 28, 2015. Kelly, along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, is staying on the International Space Station 342 days, nearly a year.
Daily images of Earth from one million miles out in space are now available from the EPIC camera on NASA's DSCOVR satellite. The images have been taken 12 to 36 hours before they're posted on the website below: http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
