Jay L. DeShetler
@jdeshetler
Remote Videography & Illustration contributor for http://NASASpaceflight.com Proud father of three adult children and grandkid.
Side-by-side shot of returning boosters with different returning approaches during Flight 7 & 8 from the same remote spot. @NASASpaceflight youtu.be/sSDGxXQEFYY
Is it Christmas already in Florida? Or is is the last girder tree topping on VIF-A at the Cape?
LAUNCH! Vega C’s second mission of 2025 launches from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Five payloads will be delivered to SSO, with Vega C flying directly north from the launch site. Overview: nasaspaceflight.com/2025/07/launch… Arianespace Live: youtube.com/watch?v=mP9_UN…
This Week In Spaceflight with Elysia Segal (@elysiasegal) youtube.com/watch?v=2y-IfD…
LIVE: Polaris Dawn astronauts Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon on NSF's Astro Live show from the Intrepid Museum, New York City. youtube.com/live/EeUbBHDUs…
Polaris Dawn - Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon - Intrepid Museum Astro LIVE x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Workers muscling Booster 13's salvaged aft section off of its transport trailer. @NASASpaceflight
After being transported from the Port of Brownsville to Massey's overnight, the remains of B13 has been lifted off of the truck for further processing. @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/starbase
And live views. Booster 13 aft flying again, kinda! Thanks to Jack (@thejackbeyer) for the view. nsf.live/starbase
Booster 13’s salvaged aft end at the Massey Outpost this afternoon waiting to be lifted. @NASASpaceflight
Earlier this morning, ULA rolled out the Vulcan rocket fairing carrying the USSF-106 payload as they continue to prepare Vulcan for its next mission at SLC-41! @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/spacecoast
You ever see the salvaged remains of the world's largest rocket transported down a two lane road by a semi truck in the middle of the night? Yeah, me too a couple times. @NASASpaceflight
Life gets busy, and it is easy to just throw your NSF t-shirt into the dryer on the normal heat setting, but to keep your shirts fresh for many launches to come, we recommend ✅ Wash on cold ✅ Wash Inside out ✅ Tumble dry on low (or air dry if you're fancy) ❌ No bleach ❌ No…
Booster 13's remains returned home after being lifted out of the Gulf, while future vehicles continue their preparations, as is the case with the two launch pads at SpaceX's Starbase. ➡️youtu.be/877P0ETxbDI
"Yikes!" "You Bet!" "Concur!" "We Don't Need Anymore of These!" July 23rd - on this day in 1999, NASA launched the Chandra X-ray Observatory from KSC onboard Shuttle Columbia (STS-93). It was the heaviest payload ever launched by the Space Shuttle. Columbia's crew included…
America’s largest airshow at @EAA Oshkosh 🇺🇸 Over 700,000 attendees and more than 10,000 aircraft flying in for the festivities. While the airspace doesn’t allow full-on jet aerobatics, you can still go fast, pull plenty of G’s and make some noise!
SpaceX Falcon 9 B1081-16 will make a second attempt to launch TRACERS from SLC-4E in a few hours. Yesterday's scrub was no fault of the rocket or launch site, but due to an FAA-related outage. Ryan Caton explains: nasaspaceflight.com/2025/07/faa-fa…
With this fleet leader booster going for Flight 30, what's your guess on how many missions they can stretch to with Falcons? 40? 50? (Including new boosters entering the fleet.) Remember, Falcon is not going away for many years, even after Starship becomes fully operational.
Falcon 9 Booster looks to be B1067-30 is rolling out ahead of its 30th Flight! If it is B1067, Flight 30 to add to its resume, SpaceX really pushing reuse as far as they can @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/spacecoast
Today At Starbase July 23 2025 Ship LB Jill with a recovered section of Booster 13 arrived at the Port of Brownsville. Continuing to watch Launch Site and Massey Test Site work. Watch all the current happenings on NSF's Starbase Live - youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQ… Also be…
As part of an effort to gain better coverage of multiple launch pads under construction at Cape Canaveral, I've ordered a high resolution satellite image that covers many of the Space Coast launch pads and made it freely available to everyone to browse. Quick thread:
🚀 Latest view of SpaceX’s LC-39A at @NASAKennedy Visible progress on the Starship launch pad since May. 🛰️ Captured mid-July 2025.
🔄 One month later here’s how things have changed. We’ve revisited SpaceX’s LC-39A and Roberts Road sites at @NASAKennedy. 🚀 New construction progress is clearly visible in both areas. 🛰️ Satellite imagery update, mid-May 2025. Tracking development as it happens.