William Harwood

Leaving the Kennedy Space Center today, got a nice view of a New Glenn first stage heading to the pad…

New Shepard-36: The crew is now exiting the capsule

New Shepard-36: Blue Origin says the previously unidentified passenger is Will Lewis, an entrepreneur and adventurer

New Shepard-36: Touchdown confirmed

New Shepard-36: New Shepard main parachute deploy confirmed

New Shepard-36: Booster touchdown confirmed

New Shepard-36: Booster and capsule descending normally; passengers are back in their seats

New Shepard-36: Main engine shutdown, capsule separation confirmed; the passengers are now weightless

New Shepard-36: Management poll complete; all systems 'go' for launch

New Shepard-36: 15 minutes to launch of the RSS First Step capsule

New Shepard-36: Blue Origin's launch webcast is underway: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4TG...

New Shepard-36: As with all New Shepard flights, the capsule will be boosted to an altitude just above 62 miles, the internationally recognized "boundary" of space; as the capsule coasts through the top of its ballistic trajectory, the crew will experience about 3 minutes of weightlessness

New Shepard-36: The 6 passengers include businessman Jeff Elgin; Danna Karagussova of Kazakhstan; entrepreneur Aaron Newman; Vitalii Ostrovsky, a Ukrainian businessman and adventurer; Clint Kelly III, an electrical engineer making his 2nd New Shepard flight; and an unidentified passenger

New Shepard-36: Blue Origin is preparing to launch 6 passengers aboard a New Shepard spacecraft on a sub-orbital flight to the edge of space and back; liftoff from the company's West Texas launch site is targeted for 9:40am EDT (1340 UTC); this will be Blue's 15th passenger flight to space

F9/IMAP: 1st stage landing on the droneship Just Read The Instructions; this was the 414th booster landing at seat and the 510th successful recovery overall

F9/IMAP: 2nd stage engine shutdown; the vehicle will now coast for a little more than 1 hour before a second firing to put the vehicle onto the payload deploy trajectory

F9/IMAP: 1st stage engine shutdown, stage separation, 2nd stage ignition confirmed

F9/IMAP: LIFTOFF! At 7:30am EDT (1130 UTC)

F9/IMAP: Here's a pre-launch view of the three payloads launching today, shortly before their encapsulation in a Falcon 9 nose fairing

F9/IMAP: NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will study ultraviolet light generated in Earth's extreme outer atmosphere while NOAA's SWFO-L1 will look for indicators of developing solar storms that could impact Earth's space environment

F9/IMAP: NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will monitor the boundary of the heliosphere, where charged particles in the solar wind run into the surrounding interstellar medium; it will operate from Lagrange point 1, a gravitationally stable region between Earth and sun

F9/IMAP: SpaceX is fueling a Falcon 9 rocket for a dawn launch to carry three science probes into space to monitor the solar wind, solar storm development and Earth's extreme outer atmosphere; liftoff from KSC pad 39A is targeted for 7:30am EDT (1130 UTC)

New Shepard/NS-35: Capsule touchdown confirmed

New Shepard/NS-35: The New Shepard capsule, meanwhile, has deployed its main parachutes

New Shepard/NS-35: Booster landing confirmed

New Shepard/NS-35: The New Shepard reached a maximum altitude of 345,000 feet before arcing over and beginning its descent to Earth, preceded by the booster

New Shepard/NS-35: After an on-time liftoff, the New Shepard capsule has separated from its booster and is now coasting up on a ballistic trajectory; the microgravity experiments on board are now experiencing about 3 minutes of weightlessness

New Shepard/NS-35: This will be Blue Origin's 4th attempt to launch the NS-35 mission since an initial scrub on Aug. 23; the company blamed the delays on unspecified issues with the the booster's avionics, but no other details were provided

New Shepard/NS-35: Blue Origin is counting down to launch of its 35th sub-orbital New Shepard flight from the company's west Texas facility; liftoff is targeted for 9am EDT (1300 UTC); on board: more than 40 microgravity experiments

F9/Cygnus NG-23: Jonny Kim, operating the space station's robot arm, locked onto a grapple fixture at the base of the Cygnus XL cargo ship at 7:24am EDT (1124 UTC) as the two spacecraft were sailing 258 miles above central Africa, closing out an extended 4-day rendezvous

F9/Cygnus NG-23: The Cygnus XL is now inside 30 meters of the space station, moving toward a point where it will hold and await capture by the lab's robot arm

F9/Cygnus NG-23: Nice view as the Cygnus moves into orbital sunset

F9/Cygnus NG-23: Astronauts Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman are expected to capture the Cygnus XL spacecraft with the lab's robot arm at 7:18am EDT (1118 UTC); from there, flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center will take over and pull the cargo ship in for berthing at the central Unity module

F9/Cygnus NG-23: Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo ship is closing in on the International Space Station, on track for a day-late capture by the lab's robot arm; the freighter's main engine has been working normally after a software update in the wake of two premature shutdowns Tuesday

Cygnus NG-23: While arrival at the ISS will come one day later than planned, NASA and Northrop Grumman are optimistic the cargo ship will perform as needed for a successful berthing at the central Unity module's Earth-facing port

Cygnus NG-23: NASA says the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship is back on course for capture at the ISS around 7:18am EDT (1118 UTC) Thursday; problems Tuesday with the spacecraft's propulsion system were blamed on main engine software constraints that were overly conservative

Cygnus XL: Capture by the station's robot arm had been planned for Wednesday morning US time, but it's now on indefinite hold while engineers work to understand the problem and develop an alternate rendezvous plan

Cygnus XL: NASA says two planned firings of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo ship's main engine ended prematurely earlier today, interrupting the spacecraft's automated rendezvous with the space station and putting its arrival at the outpost on hold

Progress MS-32/93P: After hooks and latches engage, locking the Progress to Zvezda's aft docking port, Russian flight controllers will carry out the usual leak checks to verify an airtight structural seal; hatches will be opened Sunday, giving the crew access to 2.8 tons of supplies and equipment

Progress MS-32/93P: Contact and capture over eastern Kazakhstan, at 1:23pm EDT (1723 UTC)

Progress MS-32/93P: Final approach underway; range: 140 meters

Progress MS-32/93P: Fly-around complete; the Progress is now station keeping while Russian flight controllers evaluate system status before the final push to docking

Progress MS-32/93P: Fly-around mode initiated; the Progress is now lining up on the docking axis as the two spacecraft sail 260 miles above the Sahara Desert

Progress MS-32/93P: A nice view of the approaching Progress; range to ISS is now less than 1 km

Progress MS-32/93P: The Progress cargo ship launched Thursday is now within about 3 km of the International Space Station, on track for docking at the Zvezda module's aft port

F9/Nusantara Lima: Payload deploy confirmed

F9/Nusantara Lima: 1st stage engine shutdown, stage separation, 2nd stage engine ignition confirmed

F9/Nusantara Lima: LIFTOFF! At 9:56pm EDT (0156 UTC)

F9/Nusantara Lima: SpaceX is fueling a Falcon 9 rocket for a 4th attempt to launch a commercial Indonesian comsat: Nusantara Lima; liftoff from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral SFS is targeted for 9:56pm EDT (0156 UTC), the end of this evening's launch window

Progress MS-32/93P: 3rd stage engine shutdown, Progress separation, solar arrays/antenna deploy confirmed; the vehicle will now press ahead with an automated rendezvous, on track for docking at the Zvezda module's aft port at 1:27pm EDT (1727 UTC) Saturday