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By Mike Killian, on January 11th, 2015 LIFTOFF of SpaceX’s Falcon-9 booster Saturday morning, Jan. 10, 2015, kicking off the first U.S. launch of 2015 and the company’s fifth NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace In the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, SpaceX kicked off the United States’ […] 3 comments - (Comments are closed) By Mike Killian, on November 23rd, 2014 Remote cameras set up around launch pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia captured incredible up-close views of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff several weeks ago. The mission was to deliver the company’s Orb-3 Cygnus spacecraft to deliver supplies and experiments […] 7 comments - (Comments are closed) By Mike Killian, on February 23rd, 2014 United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully returned its workhorse Delta IV launch vehicle to operational service on Feb. 20, 2014, with the rousing 8:59 p.m. EST liftoff of a key mission to insert the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-5 satellite into a medium orbit, some 11,047 nautical miles (20,460 km) above Earth. Photo Credit: […] One comment - (Comments are closed) By Mike Killian, on January 11th, 2014 Antares thunders off pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to deliver Cygnus to the ISS, the first flight for Orbital Sciences Corporation to deliver fresh supplies to the ISS under a $1.9 billion NASA contract. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace / Mike Killian Orbital Sciences Corporation successfully launched their Cygnus spacecraft to the International […] Comments are closed By Mike Killian, on November 20th, 2013 The violent launch to send MAVEN to Mars begins. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace / Alan Walters (www.AWaltersPhoto.com) On Monday, Nov. 18 2013, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft thundered off the surface of the Earth to begin its half-billion-mile journey to Mars. The $670 million Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, or MAVEN, is the product of […] Comments are closed By Jason Rhian, on March 3rd, 2013 Photo Credit: John Studwell CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — On Friday, March 1, Space Exploration Technologies, more commonly known as “SpaceX,” successfully launched the fifth of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets. At the top of this highly-successful launch vehicle was a Dragon spacecraft, packed with supplies, ready to be sent thundering to the International […] Comments are closed By Mike Barrett, on February 11th, 2013
Video Credit: NASA This is the edited NASA video from today’s United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Atlas V 401 rocket carried the latest Landsat satellite, dubbed LDCM (for Landsat Data Continuity Mission) into a polar orbit after a successful launch at […] Comments are closed By Jason Rhian, on February 27th, 2012 [youtube_video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34K_twtgDzg[/youtube_video] Excluding the “countdown” audio and music score during the second launch video – all the elements of this presentation were produced by AmericaSpace and its affiliates. Alan Walters, Mike Killian, Jason Rhian, Matt Gaetjens as well as Mike Barrett & Jeff Seibert with Wired4Space.com and Lloyd Behrendt with Blue Sawtooth Studios contributed to […] Comments are closed |
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