Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to be given a tour of the SpaceX star factory at Starbase, Texas (formerly Boca Chica village). The production lines...
Reaction control thrusters on the Apollo 14 Command Module “Kitty Hawk” on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A rather more sobering image today. This panel from Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia was recovered from the debris field in Texas and Louisiana after the disaster...
A detail of the Space Shuttle Atlantis orbiter on display at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Let’s delve into the archives for something different this week. With SpaceX’s 6th Starship/SuperHeavy launch scheduled for this afternoon,...
The Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand or Dynamic Structural Test Facility is a 360 foot high building at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL inside...
Another view of the iconic T-Tower, Static Test Stand, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
SpaceX managed to launch 2 Falcon 9s from Cape Canaveral within 4 hours of each other last Saturday and we managed to catch both launches. Here’s...
Segueing nicely from space hardware back to birds, here’s a Great Blue Heron that was fishing near Titan III Road in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station...
Yesterday was going to be an exciting day after my son managed to get tickets to watch the final launch of a ULA Delta IV Heavy rocket from the closest...
The command module from Apollo 14, named “Kitty Hawk” by her crew, on display in the Kennedy Space Center visitors’ center. Apollo 14 flew...
This SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage can be found on display inside one of the exhibits at Kennedy Space Center. The rocket previously flew and was recovered...
We’re in Florida this week, visiting son number 2 who is working an internship at SpaceX. First port of call was, of course Kennedy Space Center...
I did a bit more reading about the A-12 after posting yesterday’s image. It was a slightly shorter, slightly faster version of the aircraft that...
This Apollo command module, nicknamed “Casper” by its crew, was launched on April 16th, 1972 and took Apollo 16 crew John Young (later to command...
The nose of a Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) and portion of the external tank as seen at the US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama...
We visited the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama this morning and, as a bona-fide space nerd, I had a fantastic time. Usually, I would...
This is the famous Andromeda Galaxy, M31, as seen from Pedernales Falls State Park on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 and represents my first attempt at photographing...
Apparently I forgot to post this shot while I was running my series of shuttle + carrier photos back in May. This is the fifth image in a set of detail...
