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NASA’s Artemis II SLS Rocket and Orion Spacecraft Rollout to Launch Pad 39B

By |2026-01-18T17:44:10-05:00January 18th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

This image shows NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA's massive Crawler-Transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carries the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on the Mobile Launcher from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space [...]

Artemis II at Launch Pad 39B

By |2026-01-18T17:44:09-05:00January 18th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Lights illuminate NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 01/17/2026. In the coming days, engineers will prepare for the wet dress rehearsal, a two-day test that simulates launch day. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, [...]

A Rocket in the Sun

By |2025-09-27T13:44:28-04:00September 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its Kennedy Space Center launch site. This rocket carried three new space weather missions to space. Signals have now been successfully [...]

SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California

By |2025-02-17T08:09:08-05:00February 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happened to the sky? Last Monday, the photogenic launch plume from a SpaceX rocket launch created quite a spectacle over parts of southern California and Arizona. Looking at times like a giant space fish, the impressive rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California, was so bright [...]

Rocket Launch as Seen from the International Space Station

By |2025-01-05T08:09:07-05:00January 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Have you ever seen a rocket launch -- from space? A close inspection of the featured time-lapse video will reveal a rocket rising to Earth orbit as seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket was launched in November 2018 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying [...]

NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Resource Reel – June 2024

By |2024-07-08T17:09:27-04:00July 8th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This resource reel shows major milestones for NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System) from fall 2023 through early 2024. Teams across the country are manufacturing, building, and preparing hardware for SLS rockets that will power the first crewed Artemis missions with Artemis II and III and the first flights of SLS in [...]

Boeing CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) Launch to the ISS [Live]

By |2024-06-01T16:17:46-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) will be the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner and the third orbital flight test of the Starliner overall after the two uncrewed orbital flight tests, Boe-OFT and Boe-OFT 2 in 2019 and 2022. The flight was scheduled for liftoff at 2:34 on 7 May UTC (May 6, 2024 [...]

Apollo Saturn V Rocket LEGO Build Live

By |2024-05-27T22:13:26-04:00May 27th, 2024|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

We're hanging out and building the LEGO version of NASA's Apollo Saturn V Rocket that brought humans safely to the moon and back. Come hang out and say hello to chat about space while we build this amazing LEGO set!Buy this LEGO set here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3s0neba#NASA #LEGO #SaturnV❤❤ EXCLUSIVE CONTENT FOR MEMBERS ❤❤➡️http://patreon.com/overlookhorizon➡️https://www.youtube.com/OLHZN/joinTIMESTAMPS0:00 Preshow4:39 Show [...]

Artemis I Launch (Press Site)

By |2024-04-03T00:09:06-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop launches the agency’s Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16 from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Moon rocket and spacecraft lifted off at 1:47 a.m. ET. The Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the agency’s [...]

SpaceX Falcon Heavy ViaSat-3 Americas Launch Live 🔴

By |2023-04-30T21:26:40-04:00April 30th, 2023|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

SpaceX is targeting Sunday, April 30 for a Falcon Heavy launch of the ViaSat-3 Americas mission to geostationary orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also on board this mission is Astranis's first MicroGEO satellite and Gravity Space’s GS-1 satellite. The 57-minute launch window opens at 7:29 p.m. ET [...]

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