News Archive / Author: Matt Haskell

Matt Haskell is a published aviation and spaceflight photographer and writer based in Merritt Island Florida. Born and raised outside Edwards Air Force Base and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, he moved to Florida’s Space Coast and began photographing and reporting spaceflight professionally full time in 2018.

Articles By Matt Haskell

• Inspiration4 soars into orbit with 4 non-professional astronauts

  September 15th, 2021

  Less than eight months after its announcement, the all-private civilian Inspiration4 mission has launched into orbit.

• Inspiration4 set for 1st all-private civilian orbital spaceflight

  September 13th, 2021

  Inspiration4, the first all-private civilian orbital spaceflight, is set to launch four ordinary people on a three-day trip circling Earth.

• Ingenuity makes 12th flight from the Martian surface

  August 23rd, 2021

  In yet another milestone, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity made its 12th flight from the Red Planet’s surface on Aug. 16.

• Atlas rocket for Boeing crewed mission arrives at the Cape

  June 25th, 2021

  On June 21, United Launch Alliance unloaded its Atlas V rocket first stage, and Dual Engine Centaur Upper stage in Port Canaveral, Florida, ahead of Boeing's Crewed Flight Test mission.

• SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon launches with new solar arrays for ISS

  June 3rd, 2021

  Lifting off atop a brand new Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX sent its CRS-22 Dragon spacecraft into orbit on a 1.5-day trek to the International Space Station.

• SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon launching science, power upgrades to ISS

  June 1st, 2021

  SpaceX is set to launch its next resupply mission to the International Space Station, CRS-22, bringing the outpost fresh science and new solar arrays.

• Light this candle! The 60th anniversary of the first American in space

  May 5th, 2021

  Sixty years ago today, on May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard rocketed to space in his Mercury capsule to become the first American and the second human in space.

• Delta IV Heavy launches classified NRO payload from California

  April 26th, 2021

  A Delta IV Heavy took the the skies from Vandenberg Air Force Base to send the secretive NROL-82 payload into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.

• Wings of exploration: reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle

  April 12th, 2021

  The launch of the space shuttle on April 12, 1981, proved to be a history-making event. For many, that day stemmed careers, dreams and imaginations alike.

• NASA conducts Orion water drop tests ahead of Artemis 2

  April 7th, 2021

  NASA made a considerable splash Tuesday afternoon by dropping its Orion crew module into a pool of water at its research facility in Langley, Virginia.

• Virgin Galactic unveils its first ‘SpaceShip III’ suborbital spacecraft

  April 5th, 2021

  Last week, Virgin Galactic, the space tourism firm owned by Richard Branson, revealed its newest design, SpaceShip III, with the first vehicle in this line dubbed “VSS Imagine.”

• NASA chooses Falcon Heavy for first segments of lunar gateway

  February 13th, 2021

  In a contract award as part of NASA’s Artemis program, NASA announced on Tuesday, February 9, that they have awarded the launch contract for initial elements of the Gateway Lunar Outpost to SpaceX and their Falcon Heavy rocket.

• Vulcan rocket progresses towards first launch with pathfinder arrival

  February 13th, 2021

  Progress continues to advance for United Launch Alliance’s newest rocket, as the pathfinder for the Vulcan rocket arrived by the company’s cargo ship and was unloaded at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday, February 15.

• SpaceX teams up with St Jude & Shift4 to offer free trip to space

  February 7th, 2021

  In a surprise announcement on Monday, February 1, and scheduled to be brought to the masses through a Super Bowl ad, SpaceX has announced the first all civilian mission of their Dragon spacecraft, helmed by billionaire Jared Isaacman, in financial support of St. Jude.

• Firefly awarded NASA contract for CLPS Lunar Lander

  February 6th, 2021

  As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a $93.3 million contract to land a set of 10 research payloads on the moon in 2023 as part of CLPS Task Order 19D.