by terranovabay
The CRS-17 Falcon 9 booster, still atop the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, is being prepared to be lifted off by crane and onto shore on 5 May 2017. The booster and droneship arrived back in Port late in the afternoon on 4 May from its position just offshore for the booster landing. Click to view more images.
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: CRS-17, droneship, Falcon 9, Of Course I Still Love You, Port Canaveral, SpaceX
by terranovabay
The Crew Dragon Demo-1 spacecraft that recently returned from the International Space Station after flying an automatic test flight there and back returns to Port Canaveral aboard the Go Searcher recovery ship on 9 March 2019. The Demo-1 spacecraft had parachuted to a landing in the Atlantic Ocean the day before. The arrival back at Port was the beginning of a late night operation to get the spacecraft off the ship and back to its hanger for study. A successful […]
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Crew Dragon, Demo-1, Go Navigator, Go Searcher, Port Canaveral, SpaceX
by terranovabay
The SpaceX Falcon 9 booster for the CRS-16 mission floats in the water at Port Canaveral after being towed in earlier in the day on 7 December 2018. The booster strayed off course as it attempted to touchdown on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A failure of one of the grid fins that help steer and stabilize the rocket during its descent failed causing the rocket to come down further to the east in the Atlantic […]
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CRS-16, Falcon 9, Port Canaveral, SpaceX
by terranovabay
A Great Blue Heron at sunrise on a cold morning.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Ardea herodias, Great Blue Heron, Port Canaveral
by terranovabay
The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage used for the Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite launch returns to Port Canaveral on 12 September 2018 aboard the Of Course I Still Love You droneship that the booster landed on about eight minutes after launch a few hundred miles out in the Atlantic Ocean. Click to view a gallery of my Telstar 18 Vantage launch & booster recovery photos.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, droneship, Falcon 9, OCISLY, Of Course I Still Love You, Port Canaveral, SpaceX, Telstar 18 VANTAGE
by terranovabay
The SpaceX recovery ship Go Quest heads into Port Canaveral while in front of it is the U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel named City of Bismarck. The Go Quest supports ocean landings of SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets on the autonomous spaceport drone ship, sort of a rocket landing pad on a barge, that is then towed back to Port Canaveral so the rocket can be refurbished and reused. In this case, the return of the booster on 12 September […]
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: autonomous spaceport drone ship, City of Bismarck, Expeditionary Fast Transport, Go Quest, Port Canaveral, U.S. Navy
by terranovabay
The saying goes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If that is the case, this Wood Stork at Port Canaveral is quite mesmerizing.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Mycteria americana, Port Canaveral, Wood Stork
by terranovabay
White Ibis | Port Canaveral
Categories: Nature • Tags: Eudocimus albus, Port Canaveral, White Ibis
by terranovabay
A fishing boat heads out of Port Canaveral into the predawn fog over the Atlantic Ocean.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Fishing Boat, fog, Port Canaveral
by terranovabay
A fishing boat heading into Port Canaveral comes out of the predawn fog over the Atlantic Ocean. Note all the birds perched on the rigging.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Fishing Boat, fog, Port Canaveral
