Sunday – Media bullpen after the launch. Everyone is scrambling to get their notes down and start the photo and video upload
Sunday – NASA administrator Charlie Bolden and SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell post-launch. Smiles for everyone!
Sunday – Post-launch briefing for the media in attendance
Sunday – NASA after dark and after the launch
Sunday – Liftoff
Sunday – The rocket, across the water
Sunday – My camera setup. Digital camera on a smaller tripod, which is attached to the big tripod with the video camera mounted on top
Sunday – On the way to the causeway, with about an hour and a half to go until launch
Sunday – Lori Garver, NASA’s Deputy Administrator, giving a social media-exclusive briefing
Sunday – Charlie Bolden, NASA’s Administrator, giving a social media-exclusive briefing
Sunday – The countdown clock with the countdown on it.
Sunday – “Danger Will Robinson!”
Sunday – Mars Rover made completely of Legos, to scale, with a fancy photo filter
Sunday – Mars Rover made completely of Legos, to scale
Sunday – The rocket garden
Sunday – NASA sign
Sunday – Another shot of the Visitor’s Center from outside the gate
Sunday – The Kennedy Center Visitor Center (from the outside)
Sunday – Jen with Jason, the awesome @NASASocial guy, and @DawnGirocco at the Falcon 9 rocket raising
Sunday – Falcon 9 rocket after being raised.
Sunday – Falcon 9 rocket after being raised. You can see the Dragon capsule at the top
Sunday – Falcon 9 rocket after being raised in launch preparation
Sunday – The Falcon 9 rocket almost vertical
Sunday – The Falcon 9 rocket, horizontal.
Sunday – The Falcon 9 rocket, horizontal. The Falcon 9 was named for the Millennium Falcon.
Sunday – Pad 40, waiting for the Falcon 9 rocket to go vertical
Sunday – Another shot of Pad 39A
Sunday – Going to the launch pad – this is Pad 39A, where the last shuttle mission was launched from
Sunday – On the bus to see the Falcon 9 get raised
Sunday – Social media waiting excitedly to go to the Falcon 9 Pad 40 launchpad, and tweeting, blogging and Facebooking about it!
Sunday – The media bull pen
Sunday – The media bull pen
Sunday – The water is the same color as the sky
Sunday – Biscuits and gravy with eggs – breakfast of space adventurers!
Sunday – Coffee and space nails!
Saturday – Jen and @DawnGirocco hanging with other space geeks!
Saturday – Space geeks know their stuff and have awesome stuff to share
Saturday – Space geeks!
Saturday – Space geeks!
Saturday – Space geeks!
Saturday – Space-geek beer!
Saturday – NASA at twilight
Saturday – NASA at twilight (wider shot)
Saturday – NASA at twilight
Saturday – Pre-launch press conference, Mike Suffredeni
Saturday – Pre-launch press conference – Sam Scimemi
Saturday – Pre-Launch Press Conference – Bob Cabana (director, Kennedy Space Center), Sam Scimemi (director, ISS), Mike Suffredini (program manager, ISS), Gwynne Shotwell (president, SpaceX), Mike McAleenan(launch weather officer)
Saturday – When we went to get the pictures of the Shuttle launchpad and the grass attacked!
Saturday – The original Shuttle launch platform
Saturday – Countdown clock. It’s too early for there to be a countdown yet.
Saturday – All the NASA social media!
Saturday – Fancy! CBS and AP Reuters
Saturday – This is where the magic starts
Saturday – The Vehicle Assembly Building. The stripes on the American flag are wide enough to fit a school bus.
Saturday – Another shot of the Vehicle Assembly Building
Saturday – The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The grey things on the sides are giant doors that can raise to the top of the building to allow mobile missile bays
Saturday – All official!
Saturday – Here!
Saturday – There’s a weather system that’s producing some fantastic cloud formations
