John Kraus
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Spaceflight photographer. Content Director @PolarisProgram . Prints available to order at my website below:
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2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE — The most stunning natural phenomenon on Earth, a total solar eclipse, swept across North America today. Here’s the entire sequence as seen from Presque Isle, Maine, under crystal clear skies.
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Another shot of Starship's first big flight today. A few Raptors were lost on the way up, but she kept going and going and going until she couldn't.
It's hard to describe what it was like to experience the excitement of today. Amazing!
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Another shot of today's Starship launch. I'm still at a loss for words. What an incredible launch, and to take place at such a beautiful time of day... wow, wow, wow.
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FALCON HEAVY TRANSITS THE MOON: Tonight’s launch of the USSF-52 mission with seventh mission of the Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane.
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Wow, wow, wow!
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched the STP-2 mission at 2:30am this morning. The two side cores, flying their second mission, returned to land successfully at Cape Canaveral.
It was incredible. Simply incredible.
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First remote camera photos coming in from today’s Starship launch. Speechless.
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T-1 hour to the second flight test of SpaceX’s Starship — the largest and most powerful rocket ever developed by humanity
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Starship: The most powerful rocket to have ever flown took off from Starbase in Texas this morning, ushering a new era in spaceflight as humanity aspires to become a multi-planetary species
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Starship in flight: All 33 Raptors on the Super Heavy booster burning!
What an incredible sight from Starbase!
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Wow! Just captured my most detailed International Space Station lunar transit photo to date.
Crew Dragon Resilience is barely distinguishable at the top-center of the station.
Taken with a Orion 10” Dobsonian telescope + 2x Barlow lens on a Nikon D500 in Lakeland, Florida.
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The moon just rose between Starship SN9 and Starship SN10.
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Starship pointing toward Polaris, the North Star, tonight
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Thanks Twitter subscribers for your support in my coverage of Starship!
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WOW: Another view of Starship hot staging, right at Starship upper stage ignition!
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Artemis I riding a column of fire from two solid rocket boosters and four RS-25 engines on its way to the Moon
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Beautiful pre-dawn launch from Cape Canaveral of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and 53 Starlink satellites this morning
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Starship and Super Heavy seemed to take a few loops on the way up!
Like SpaceX said: Excitement guaranteed! Teams will learn a lot and try again in the coming months. What an epic day!
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We'll look back on today as history.
Starship takes flight for the first time; April 20, 2023.
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A dramatic ending to the first Starship Flight Test — likely a flight termination system command? 💥
Excitement guaranteed. Congrats SpaceX!!!
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SpaceX was founded on this day in 2002 — 19 years ago.
Where might they be in 2040? 🔴👀
19% off all SpaceX prints on my site, today only, ‘spx19’:
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In real-time with 20FPS stills: Falcon Heavy transits the Moon during its launch of the USSF-52 mission December 28.
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Today’s stunning
#SolarEclipse
, seen just after sunrise behind the Mackinac Bridge in northern Michigan. 🌙
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Starship said “break a leg!” 🤣
A worthwhile risk setting cameras 1300 feet from the most powerful rocket in history.
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Falcon 9 B1058 🫡🇺🇸🚀🪱
A portion of the record-setting Falcon 9 booster remains on board the Just Read the Instructions droneship. After its 19th launch and landing, the vehicle tipped over in rough seas during the transit back to Port Canaveral, and its top portion broke off.…
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LIFTOFF OF ARTEMIS I TO THE MOON
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the uncrewed Orion capsule lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida early this morning, with the capsule’s destination — the Moon — as a backdrop.
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Falcon 9 launches Turksat 5B from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:58 p.m. EST this evening
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#SpaceX
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rocket launches
#Telstar18V
at 12:45 A.M. this morning, tracing an incredible reflection in the waters north of Cape Canaveral.
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Wow! I got it!
The International
@Space_Station
, orbiting Earth at 17,500mph, transits the full moon this evening, as seen from near Paynes Prairie Preserve in Florida.
The window to capture this transit lasted a mere *0.58 seconds.*
#SpotTheStation
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Time lapses from today’s lift of Falcon 9 B1049.6. Great showcase of humans for scale.
Lots of cool things to spot here!
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Two years ago this week, I captured a Falcon 9 rocket launching in front of the sun. Last night, I finally took the follow-up image with a Falcon 9 in front of the nearly-full moon!
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Spectacular twilight liftoff of Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral, Florida with the ViaSat-3 Americas mission
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The full moon sets behind NASA’s Space Launch System mega moon rocket at Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center this morning.
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Starship tonight ahead of Flight 3 as soon as Thursday
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Starship Flight 3 🚀 congrats SpaceX on such incredible progress!
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Falcon 9 streaks to orbit at 12:27 a.m. EDT this morning with the Globalstar FM15 satellite
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The orbital launch mount at Starbase appears to be in good shape following today's flight test of Starship
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Falcon 9 main engine cutoff, boostback burn, and second stage flight with Dragon and Crew-7 en route toward the International Space Station.
An equatorial mount kept the stars pinpoint sharp during the four-minute exposure.
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Liftoff of Falcon 9, Dragon, and the Ax-2 crew, headed to the International Space Station!
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The pad at Starbase appears to be in good condition following this morning’s Starship launch! The road to the beach is open.
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Liftoff!
As seen from the skies above Florida’s Space Coast, NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, begins its journey to the Red Planet, launching aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket!
#Mars2020
What an absolutely beautiful morning.
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200 successful Falcon rocket landings for SpaceX 🚀💯💯
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A Saturn V rocket is being projected onto the Washington Monument right now — 50 years later, to the day, post-launch of Apollo 11.
This is incredible.
#Apollo50th
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket transits the 98.9% waxing gibbous moon during this evening’s launch of the Intelsat G-33/G-34 mission
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Milky Way way at astronomical twilight in northern Florida this evening. The setting moon paired with Venus made for a nice addition and a beautiful reflection.
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