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A montage of the ISS transiting the moon as captured by Hap Griffin and Frank Hinson from South Carolina on October 6, 2017. Many have seen the International Space Station glide across the dark sky in the hours after sunset or before sunrise while it is still lit by the sun. For most […] Rising into a gloomy ball of low-lying fog, the first Delta-IV of 2015 took flight at 2:36 p.m. EDT Wednesday, 25 March, delivering the ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIF satellite into orbit. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace United Launch Alliance (ULA)—the Centennial, Colo.-based launch services operator of Atlas V, Delta […] An Orbital ATK five-segment solid rocket booster igniting on the test stand in Promontory, Utah, on March 11, 2015, unleashing 3.6 million pounds of thrust within a second for the Qualification Motor-1 (QM-1) test fire for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace The solid rocket booster that will […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Room with a View: Fantastic view of the Yucatan and British Honduras as photographed by astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad during the eight-day mission of Gemini 5 in August 1965. The Gemini Program produced a large number of wonderful views of Earth during the 1965-1966 […] The Andromeda Galaxy, M31. Photo Credit: Chris Hetlage / Imaging the Cosmos Chris Hetlage with Imaging the Cosmos offers up another stunning array of images from his observatory at the Deerlick Astronomy Village in Georgia. This dark sky community has produced stunning imagery of the majesty of space. This collection of photos contain […] Earth, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft on July 19, 2013 (the tiny blue speck in the distance, below Saturn’s rings in this view). Click for larger version. Photo Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Jason Major Last Friday, a remarkable thing happened, which received a lot of publicity, especially for space […] Photo Credit: NASA Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield gathered a remarkable following during his time in space, with his demonstration videos, song recordings, and photographs going viral throughout his five-month spaceflight. But ask him what he’s most proud of accomplishing during this mission, and he’ll happily tell you about the amazing science he and […]
Video courtesy of NASA / CSA In what is being called the first music video recorded in space, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield posted his own version of David Bowie’s classic hit “Space Oddity” (1969) on YouTube last Sunday. It was his last day as commander on the International Space Station, […] Photo Credit: Chris Cook / cookphoto.com This past Tuesday, photographer Chris Cook snapped this image of M31 (Messier 31), more commonly known as the Andromeda Galaxy. It shared the sky with the PanSTARRS comet, which is making its way through the solar system. Cook produced this composite image by conducting four 20-second exposures […] Photo Credit: Cocoa Beach Photography Ever wish you could find high-quality space images from photographers who were actually at the events? Mike Howard of Cocoa Beach Photography has been taking pictures of launches and other space-related events since the Apollo era and has decided to open up his treasure trove of images to […] |
 Launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 with Starlink 17 has been delayed once again. Currently the new launch date is To Be Determined. Click here for more details...  |
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