Space Coast Blogger

Yesterday I photographed the Liberty Star at Jetty Park towing one of the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) from the STS-129 mission in which Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Nov 16 at 2:28 p.m. EST.

The way the SRBs are retrieved from the Atlantic after a launch is pretty cool. The SRBs themselves will be refurbished and readied for a future shuttle launch from KSC.

The SRBs are 149.16 ft long and 12.17 ft in diameter, weigh 1,300,000 lb at launch.

The possible next generation manned launch vehicle, the Ares 1, launched today from Kennedy Space Center. The Ares 1-X test launch was spectacular. Go NASA!

Here’s my view from my place at the beach in Cape Canaveral .

2010 Cocoa Beach Air Show Pictures

Today and yesterday I had a chance to watch the Cocoa Beach Air Show. One of the best pictures I took was of the F-16 from the Viper Team East Heritage Flight with a Korean War era F-86 Sabre.

Here is the F-16 alone as it streaks downward.

A C-17 with it’s landing gear down.

These two are of a F/A-18 Hornet.

Here a HC-130 performs a refueling exercise with two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters from the 920th Rescue Wing stationed at Patrick AFB.

The Geico Skytypers were lighting up the sky with messages.

The show opening featured the Skytypers, the Golden Knights and a Biplane.

Kite boarding has become a popular sport on Space Coast Beaches and these pictures show why.

The couple above were awed by this kite boarder catching air.

Now he’s just showing off.

This is the Disney Wonder sailing out of Port Canaveral. The Disney Wonder is 964′ long, 106′ wide, has a tonnage of 83,000 and a top speed of 24 kn. The popular cruise ship can accommodate 2,400 passengers and 1000 crew and built in 1999.