by terranovabay
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launching STP-2 produces a massive fiery tail as it heads to orbit on the vehicle’s first night launch. Click for more.
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Department of Defense, DoD, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Test Program, SpaceX, STP-2
by terranovabay
Late night excitement as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster launched at 2:30 a.m. on 25 June 2019 carrying 24 separate spacecraft into orbit for the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2). In this almost nine minute time exposure, the arc of the rocket into orbit gives way over seven minutes later to the entry burns of the twin boosters seen at top as two parallel lines. Then the boosters fall before starting their engines again, seen as the two […]
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Department of Defense, DoD, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Test Program, SpaceX, STP-2
by terranovabay
Originally posted on Range Tracking:
http://youtu.be/Zl3ccXHLIfs My video homage to the end of the Space Shuttle Program using audio taken from the last flights of Discovery, Endeavour, and Atlantis in addition to images I’ve taken of those flights and from various Kennedy Space Center Up-Close tours and other events to get near these incredible vehicles during their preparation and move into retirement.
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center Up-Close, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Program, Up-Close
by terranovabay
The Orbiter Endeavour streaks to a landing behind telephone poles, a palm tree, and a metal tower for a landing at Kennedy Space Center ending the STS-127 construction mission to the International Space Station on 31 July 2009.
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Endeavour, International Space Station, ISS, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space Shuttle, STS-127
by terranovabay
A Black Vulture in the early morning light at Kennedy Space Center.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus, Kennedy Space Center
by terranovabay
A relic of the old railroad running right up along the beach to Launch Pads 39A & B dates back to the Apollo days at Kennedy Space Center when the 20th Century journey to the Moon got an assist from a 19th Century innovation.
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Apollo Program, Kennedy Space Center, Moon, railroad
by terranovabay
A line of people wend their way through Kennedy Space Center’s Saturn V Center to the busses after the Arabsat-6A launch attempt scrub on 10 April 2019. That is an Apollo Saturn V rocket lying on its side overhead with Snoopy and a mockup of an Apollo lunar rover in the foreground.
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Apollo, Arabsat-6A, Kennedy Space Center, Lunar Rover, Saturn V Center, Snoopy
by terranovabay
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched Arabsat-6A into orbit at 6:35 p.m. on 11 April 2019 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Click to view my gallery of selected images from the launch.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Arabsat-6A, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX
by terranovabay
A Great Blue Heron forages in the golden light of sunset photographed while waiting for the launch of WGS-10. The undeveloped areas of Kennedy Space Center and the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are managed as a wildlife refuge.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Ardea herodias, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Great Blue Heron, Kennedy Space Center, WGS-10
by terranovabay
A Turkey Vulture soars overhead in the golden light of sunset photographed while waiting for the launch of WGS-10. The undeveloped areas of Kennedy Space Center and the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are managed as a wildlife refuge.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cathartes aura, Kennedy Space Center, Turkey Vulture, WGS-10
