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Welcome home: The #SpaceX #CRS16 #Falcon9 1st stage rocket returned to Port Canaveral today after taking an unplanned dip in the Atlantic; the top of the stage took some damage on impact.
For this mission, reusability = uncertain, but recovery = affirmative. Well done, Elon & team!
(Pics: me / @WeReportSpace)
The weather forecast suggested #SpaceX would need to "thread the needle" for good weather.
Mission accomplished. At 1:29pm (ET) Thursday, the #CRS22 #Falcon9 launched, sending to the 7,000lbs of supplies to the International Space Station.
It was a hazy but pretty launch, at least for the few seconds before it flew into the clouds.
Pics: me / National Geographic
SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk signs a banner after discussing progress on the Commercial Crew Program with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at the SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy has launched on Lego Ideas ( ideas.lego.com/projects/5199f8dc-34ad-492a-91e2-0008c8e37f81 ), This perfect partner for your Saturn V is only 1,400 supporters away from formal review! It stands 106cm tall & is 1:110 scale. Front & rear fins actuate and the cockpit opens to reveal reclinable pilot & passenger seating.
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Hands Off! Protest in Vero Beach, Florida on April 5, 2025. A large crowd of over 2000 showed up to protest Trump and Elon Musk policies and the havoc caused by DOGE. This was one of 1200 locations where people raised their voices across the nation with more than 5 million participating. Resist!
SpaceX launch with Telstar 18V from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, at 12:45 am (ET) Monday morning, with support from the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base
High resolution image of the now twice flown and twice landed #SpaceX #Falcon9 first stage, which most recently carried the #BulgariaSat1 satellite to orbit. This is the rocket entering the Port Canaveral channel Thursday morning (June 29, 2017) atop the drone-ship "Of Course I Still Love You", and of particular note, it is sitting atop a piece of equipment that stablilizes the rocket after landing. It has been called the "roomba", "octo-grabber", and "Optimus Prime".
This is a merge of 4 images, creating an effective resolution of 5580x9540. (Image by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
At 11:17 am (EDT) on Friday, April 8, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket lifted off from historic LC-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. This successful launch resulted in the Crew Dragon capsule and its all-private crew of four making it to orbit. The Axiom Space Ax-1 mission crew members Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe will dock at the International Space Station, spending more than a week conducting scientific research, outreach, and commercial activities on the space station.
So this was a lucky shot, one of two taken by a sound-activated camera set at the pad approximately 12 hours before the #SpaceX #CRS15 #Falcon9 rocket would launch.
It was very rainy when we were setting up the cameras, which was a problem, but the biggest challenge (for me at least) was not knowing exactly where the rocket would be, as it was horizontal when we were there.
So, I pointed the zoom lens at where I thought the rocket would be and crossed my fingers. For the focus, I realized that I still had my focus ring taped from the last Falcon9 launch. Since I was setting the camera in approximately the same location, I just left the focus ring where it was.
Frankly, I'm surprised I had anything in the frame...
(Photo me / We Report Space) — at Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX sure knows how to put on a show: This was the *amazing* view of the SAOCOM-1b Falcon9 booster returning to LZ1.
My standard amazed caption applies: Wow, just wow.
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
Early morning at the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, before heading to Launch Complex 39A to set remote cameras for the #SES10 launch by #SpaceX
SpaceX booster B1058 returned to Port Canaveral this morning after its 7th flight, along with the new fairing recovery ship Shelia Bordelon.
Hands Off! Protest in Vero Beach, Florida on April 5, 2025. A large crowd of over 2000 showed up to protest Trump and Elon Musk policies and the havoc caused by DOGE. This was one of 1200 locations where people raised their voices across the nation with more than 5 million participating. Resist!
NASA astronaut Douglas Hurley, followed by flight surgeon Joe Dervay, arrives at Ellington Field near the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 2, 2020, for a welcome home ceremony after a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico for NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. After spending two months in space, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, carrying Hurley and crewmate Robert Behnken, splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, at 2:48 p.m. EDT. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch to the International Space Station from U.S. soil since the end of the shuttle program in 2011. The final flight test for SpaceX, Demo-2 will pave the way for the agency to certify the company’s transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. Photo credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz
The #SES10 #Falcon9 rocket, on the pad, seen just after sunrise on March 30, 2017. The first stage of the rocket is being reused after a successful landing follow the #CRS8 mission nearly one year ago.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, and booster landing, with the USSF-67 mission from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 p.m.
Welcome home: The #SpaceX #CRS16 #Falcon9 1st stage rocket returned to Port Canaveral today after taking an unplanned dip in the Atlantic; the top of the stage took some damage on impact.
For this mission, reusability = uncertain, but recovery = affirmative. Well done, Elon & team!
(Pics: me / @WeReportSpace)
May I present shots of the #EchoStar23 launch by #SpaceX atop a legless #Falcon9 rocket, taken directly from Pad 39A. These shots are from two cameras that I set on Monday, and the cameras sat patiently waiting until 2:00 am (ET) Thursday morning to capture these images.
Although I get to process and post these pictures, it would be a glorious oversight for me to not acknowledge the considerable efforts by Bill Jelen and Mary Ellen Jelen for making these images possible. They checked in on the cameras Tuesday afternoon; they waited for a chance to pick them up at 5:00 am Thursday morning, ultimately returning to the Pad Thursday afternoon for pick up and then sent me the files for processing. Also, Jared Haworth gets a shout-out for the dew heaters that kept the lenses warm and for ever-present guidance.
Launched in the early morning hours of Friday May 6, 2016 by SpaceX from Launch Complex 40, the JSAT14 satellite sits atop a Falcon9 rocket, seen here on Thursday, May 5. The mission was a success: the satellite was delivered and the first stage of the Falcon9 was recovered, landing safely on the SpaceX drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You", positioned downrange.
This is a close-up of the "flight-proven" CRS-11 Dragon capsule.
(Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
A shiny-new SpaceX Falcon9 rocket is standing tall at NASA KSC's LC-39A, ready for launch Thursday 6/3 @ 1:29pm (EDT).
The CRS-22 mission will send a Cargo Dragon capsule full of supplies to the International Space Station
Pics: me / NatGeo
Pictures of the #SpaceX #SES10 #Falcon9 "flight proven" first stage, the second time it's been launched and landed. Shots taken from Jetty Park Pier and Port Canaveral as the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship carries the first stage home. (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy has launched on Lego Ideas ( ideas.lego.com/projects/5199f8dc-34ad-492a-91e2-0008c8e37f81 ), This perfect partner for your Saturn V is only 1,400 supporters away from formal review! It stands 106cm tall & is 1:110 scale. Front & rear fins actuate and the cockpit opens to reveal reclinable pilot & passenger seating.
There's still time to support SpaceX Lego, only 1,400 tickets left for Starship-Super Heavy!
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Delayed by work obligations, these are shots of the Thursday afternoon #CRS19 #Falcon9 #SpaceX rocket launch.
I wasn't able to attend the launch in person, but three cameras set at the pad Wednesday morning braved Florida winter (45 degrees at night = brrr) conditions to capture these images.
Many thanks again to my We Report Space colleagues for doing the heavy lifting for this launch, especially Mike Howard and Scott Schilke waiting around 4 hours after the launch to pick up these cameras.
The weather forecast suggested #SpaceX would need to "thread the needle" for good weather.
Mission accomplished. At 1:29pm (ET) Thursday, the #CRS22 #Falcon9 launched, sending to the 7,000lbs of supplies to the International Space Station.
It was a hazy but pretty launch, at least for the few seconds before it flew into the clouds.
Pics: me / National Geographic
Remote/pad camera setup was scheduled very early this (Thursday, June 1) morning. When we arrived at the LC-39A, the #SpaceX #CRS11 #Falcon9 was still horizontal (I was going to try to weave in a "laying down on the job" or "still sleeping" joke here). Although not preferred for framing the remote shot, the horizontal rocket did allow for a cool photo angle.
This is a merge (a panorama, technically) of 3 tight shots of the rocket and payload, a "flight proven" Dragon capsule that was originally flown on the CRS-4 mission. You can see people working on the rocket (or maybe the payload), providing some scale, and also the view of the base (including the clamps that hold the rocket in place) is quite amazing.
And to tie the shot together, there are porta-potties in the foreground.
(Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
The #Inspiration4 mission = looking good, as the #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket w/ #CrewDragon “Resilience” atop stands tall in the morning sunlight at KSC’s LC39A.
Launch is set for 8:02pm (ET) tonight.
Liftoff of the Crew-3 mission! At 9:03 pm (ET) Wednesday night, a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, sending a Crew Dragon capsule and its crew of 4 astronauts to orbit. NASA's Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer are going to the International Space Station.
It was a beautiful, and historic, first "operational" SpaceX Crew Dragon mission. Known as the Crew-1 with the Dragon Capsule named "Resilience", launch occurred at 7:27 p.m. EST on Sunday evening from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center.
At approximately 8am on June 1, 2017 the SpaceX Falcon9 rocket went upright with a previously-flown, flight tested Dragon capsule on top. Preparations are underway to launch the Dragon to the International Space Station at 5:55pm (ET). (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
"This was a tough one," said
@elonmusk
about the B1060.5 landing, but the #Falcon9 1st stage is looking good here as it returns to port early Sunday morning.
This is just before an active thunderstorm rolled in. (Kudus to the #SpaceXFleet crew, working through the weather.)
Shots from June 2, 2016 of the #Thaicom8 #Falcon9 rocket first stage returning to Cape Canaveral via Port Canaveral, launched (and landed!) by #SpaceX. (Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
The launch of the Argentine SAOCOM 1A satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 was visible from my front yard in Long Beach. Let's be honest - it was visible over almost all of Southern California. The weather was superb, and I had time to setup to shoot it. What I was not prepared for was how large the discharge would appear on the sky. This is with my 70mm-300mm telephoto zoomed all the way out -- I almost chose the wrong lens!
This must have been about T+2:55 into the mission -- maybe a few seconds later. In the upper right, you can see the second stage Merlin engine pushing the payload toward orbit. At the right, Stage 1 is pitching to execute its boostback burn to return to Vandenberg Air Force Base, where it landed successfully. The sun had set from out location about an hour ago, but the top end of the plume (at bottom right) is high enough to still be illuminated by the reddish light of the sun near the horizon.
Photos from the early morning return of the now twice launched and landed #SpaceX #Falcon9 first stage to Port Canaveral aboard the drone-ship "Of Course I Still Love You". This follows the successful launch of the #BulgariaSat1 payload. (Photos by Michael Seeley / WeReportSpace)
Pictures of the #SpaceX #SES10 #Falcon9 "flight proven" first stage, the second time it's been launched and landed. Shots taken from Jetty Park Pier and Port Canaveral as the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship carries the first stage home. (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
SpaceX launch with Telstar 18V from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, at 12:45 am (ET) Monday morning, with support from the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base
Downrange plume from the #SpaceX #CRS15 #Falcon9. It is being lit by the sun, rising on the horizon.
(Photo me / We Report Space) — at Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX Falcon9 rocket carrying the Globalstar satellite (and maybe other stuff) to space early Sunday morning.
(30-sec exposure)
KLAX (Los Angeles International Airport) - 25 SEP 2014
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) 1994 Dassault Falcon 900B N900SX on short final to RWY 24R. SpaceX was founded in 2002 by former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.