Liftoff of @SpaceX Falcon Heavy on the #STP2 mission. #AdAstra Frank Sietzen pic.twitter.com/PgRwtvEGew — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) June 25, 2019

Keith’s note: Next week a SpaceX Falcon Heavy with be launched. On board will be the Celestis Heritage payload. Inside will be some ashes of my long time friend and collaborator Frank Sietzen. It would seem that Frank is about to become the first American journalist in space. Frank was also the first SpaceX employee in Washington DC. Ad Astra Frank. Frank Clark Sietzen, Jr., Celestis

NASA Kennedy Seeks Media Nominations for ‘Chroniclers’ Awards, NASA “NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is soliciting members of the working news media for names of former colleagues they deem worthy of designation as a space program “Chronicler” at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. “The Chroniclers” program honors broadcasters, journalists, authors, contractor public relations representatives and NASA Public Affairs officers who excelled in sharing news from Kennedy about U.S. efforts in space […]

Keith’s note: My long time friend and collaborator Frank Sietzen Jr. passed away comfortably on Sunday. Born in May 1952, Frank as a consumate space advocate, historian, policy analyst, and journalist. He lived and breathed space. We wrote a book together a few years ago “New Moon Rising” about the Bush Administration’s “Vision for Exploration”. Indeed, we broke the story of this new plan’s existence on the front page of […]

Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars: the Curious Science of Life in the Void will give you a whole new view of an astronaut’s life Frank Sietzen, Jr.: For most of us spacers human spaceflight is nothing to, well, joke about. After all, riding rockets into the cosmos is serious business, and there’s nothing that NASA or we do better than take ourselves seriously – perhaps too seriously. In the last […]