Adam Bernstein

Artemis II vehicle rolls toward LC-39B, carried by those who built it 💪🇺🇸

@AJamesMcCarthy Best office in the world

There’s something truly magical about this place. Waiting inside this building is a moon rocket, about to make the trip to the launch pad before leaving Earth.

The Mobile Launcher is being raised by the hydraulics of the crawler-transporter 2. This is an important step before they begin forward motion. Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=Wyi9M7…

NASA’s SLS rocket is scheduled to roll out of the Vehicle Assembly Building this evening ahead of the Artemis II mission to the Moon. 📸 for @SpaceflightNow

Starlink beat the weather this morning 💪

RT @SpaceflightNow: SpaceX is now fueling its Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff of…

@GeorgeAlderman_ @NASAAdmin About as on-brand a venue as it gets 🤙

.@NASAAdmin introduces a screening of Project Hail Mary at the National Air and Space Museum

@johnkrausphotos @wxbrad We see you Brad.

Brad, this language looks virtually identical to my website’s prediction. The heat map is very similar too. “strongly aided by high sky-plume contrast. Strongly helped by plume illumination. Helped by plume elevation above the horizon. Rocket enters sunlight: ~T+03:25” This language appears to come straight from a jellyfish.johnkrausphotos.com prediction output. While the tool is provided freely for the community (at great effort and time to create, and moderate ongoing costs to myself) in efforts to inspire people to look up and be excited by spaceflight, it’s disappointing to see it presented here without attribution. Please be sure to include attribution to third-party resources, including the space jellyfish predictor. Cheers, John

"Jellyfish" cloud alert Thursday morning. The current time of the East Coast #Falcon9 rocket launch is perfect for a well-defined jellyfish cloud. The green area on the map has the highest chance of seeing it and is strongly aided by high sky-plume contrast. Strongly helped by plume illumination. Helped by plume elevation above the horizon. Rocket enters sunlight: ~T+03:25 #spaceX #falcon9 #starlink #cltwx #ncwx #scwx #wcnc

@SpaceDavenport Hard not to love this. Enjoy the show!

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman kicks off a screening of Project Hail Mary at the Air and Space Museum. This is going to be good.

NASA is now targeting Thursday, March 19, for the rollout of its Space Launch System rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad at Launch Complex 39B. First motion is expected at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 UTC). 📸: @ABernNYC

Engineers are targeting 8 pm ET on Thursday, March 19, for rollout of Artemis II. NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 will carry the 11-million-pound stack at about 1 mph along the four-mile route from the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy to the launch pad.

LIVE: Tune in to watch @Astro_ChrisW and @Astro_Jessica go for a spacewalk! Our astronauts are scheduled to step outside the @Space_Station at about 8am ET (1200 UTC) and work for about six-and-a-half hours. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: preparing the booster for a 33-engine static fire

Due to quicker-than-expected completion of closeout activities, Artemis II rollout may now begin as soon as Thursday, March 19. A final decision will be made on Wednesday. More info: go.nasa.gov/419QL5d

Falcon 9 lifts off with a new batch of Starlink satellites on a cold, blustery morning on the Cape.

SpaceX is working towards launching its Falcon 9 rocket this morning from Cape Canaveral, but conditions are quite cloudy and windy. Liftoff of the Starlink 10-46 mission is scheduled for 9:27 a.m. EDT (1327 UTC). Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=vKaLZY…

100 years ago, Robert Goddard launched the first successful liquid-fueled rocket, Nell. During our conversation last week with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman, we asked him about what he believes will be the next near-impossible achievements for NASA. Here's what he told us:

Teams are now targeting no earlier than Friday, March 20, to roll Artemis II to the launchpad, maintaining the opportunity for an April 1 launch attempt. More info: go.nasa.gov/4utuo8B

During a briefing on US Spacewalks 94, 95, Bill Spetch, operations integration manager, International Space Station Program, says that the next flights heading to the ISS are the Progress 94 (launching March 22 at 7:59 am ET, docking March 24 at 9:35 am ET) and NG-24 (launching NET April 8). 📸: Roscosmos (left) Northrop Grumman (top) NASA (bottom, file from NG-23)