Rocket Dad

Aerospace on the Space Coast | Dad of rocket-loving kids | Melbourne, FL

[Rocket Dad @RocketDad321]

What a perfect way to wrap up the weekend — exploring the future of flight and space with the family at the UP Summit at Kennedy Space Center. The boys were obsessed with the flying cars and rockets. Can’t wait for what’s next. 🚀 #capeweek #upsummit

[Pete Carstens @CarstensPete]

Thunderbirds today at the Max Power Air Show Kennedy Space Center. #maxpower #kennedyspacecenter #thunderbirds.

[Max Evans @_MaxQ_]

Happy MAX POWER weekend, y’all 🤙🏻🇺🇸

[Rocket Dad @RocketDad321]

Air show AND rockets in the same weekend? The boys are going to lose their minds. Who else is heading out to KSC? 🚀

[NASA @NASA]

Flying high!

Today, our X-59 quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft traveled from Birmingham, Alabama, to Daytona Beach, Florida. The aircraft aims to fly faster than sound with just a gentle thump rather than a sonic boom — helping usher in a new era of faster air travel.

We're prepping to feature X-59 at MAX POWER and will provide updates soon!

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Apollo Heroes 🇺🇸

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Trump Delivers Remarks, Nov. 6, 2026 https://t.co/WI1K2HKnZS

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Today, we’re excited to welcome @POTUS to @NASAKennedy as we begin building a global stage worthy of America’s leadership in aerospace.

CAPEWEEK will be a great American gathering for the people and technologies shaping the future of aerospace, bringing together builders, operators, entrepreneurs, engineers, pilots, investors, explorers, and hundreds of thousands of members of the public.

There is no better stage for this than Kennedy Space Center and the runway that welcomed the Space Shuttle home.

This is where America can show the world what we are building next.

[Rocket Dad @RocketDad321]

Prepping for Starship at KSC!

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Starship Pad 39A with a full water deluge test.

https://t.co/2y8guyWyeQ

[Rocket Dad @RocketDad321]

🚀 Space Coast families — NASA’s MAX POWER is this weekend (Nov 7-8) at KSC!
Thunderbirds headline the air show on the Shuttle Landing Facility (final show of their 2026 season — rare KSC appearance), plus NASA jets, Navy demo team, astronauts, and more.
Visitor Complex has special $17.76-off admission + parades/STEM fun. Air show GA is sold out (premium seats may still be open Sunday).

Details & tickets: https://t.co/O0iIKAzOMo

Who’s going? ✈️🇺🇸 #MAXPOWER #KSC #SpaceCoast

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

We’re going big for America’s 250th. 🇺🇸

MAX POWER is coming to Florida Nov. 7-8. @NASA and external collaborators will bring together aviation, aerospace technology, and space exploration for a two-day celebration of American innovation and exploration.

This is going to be quite a show. 🚀

Learn more about MAX POWER: https://t.co/TKh0fD1z7j

[Ming @tslaming]

BOOM 🗞️ Starship is about to move into its new Florida home 🏠

After about 18 months of construction, SpaceX's Gigabay at Roberts Road, right inside Kennedy Space Center, is almost finished on the outside. The last big piece is the pair of giant transfer-aisle doors that finished rockets will roll out through.

And this thing is enormous. At 380 feet tall, it rises about as high as a 35-story skyscraper.

🚀 It packs 24 work cells for stacking and refurbishing Starships and Super Heavy boosters.
🏗️ Its cranes can lift up to 400 US tons.
📏 It can hold vehicles up to 266 feet tall.
📦 It gives SpaceX more than 11 times the workspace of the Mega Bays at Starbase.

Here's the key: this isn't where Starships get built. It's where they get stacked, checked, and turned around between flights, and that's exactly what it takes to launch again and again.

The timing says it all. SpaceX just paused Florida launches for at least six weeks so crews can get the pads and infrastructure ready for Starship. The team is also prepping the Gigabay for Booster 23 and Ship 43, which have both wrapped up cryo-proof testing.

And SpaceX is just getting started. Together with NASA, it has applied to grow the Roberts Road campus from 167 acres to nearly 400, making room for ship static-fire stands and a payload processing facility.

The doors are almost on, and Starship is about to call two coasts home.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

As the prophecy foretold, Starship 42 will be the first tower catch

[Rocket Dad @RocketDad321]

Space Launch System #ArtemisIII

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

The core stage of the Artemis III rocket is officially stacked.

[Robin @xdNiBoR]

Maybe it is a coincidence, but the new Houston Robotaxi geofence points straight to the Terafab location!

[Rocket Dad @RocketDad321]

S43 getting lifted for catch-related work at Starbase. Next chapter is Florida: this ship is expected to fly from Kennedy’s LC-39A. The Space Coast is about to get a lot louder.

[Analis Beckerman @gatewaytomarz]

Timelapse from S43’s lift at the pad today.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

@elonmusk @Tesla Next up:

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Booster 22 completed a full-duration static fire test on Pad 2 ahead of November's Flight 15, while several future vehicles undergo preparation for their upcoming missions.

https://t.co/axCohMQKom

[Rocket Dad @RocketDad321]

ICBM Row at Cape Canaveral was built in the late 1950s to test Atlas and Titan missiles. Those same pads later launched John Glenn and every Gemini crew.
After decades of silence, Stoke, Relativity, and others are now rebuilding the historic complexes for reusable rockets. Cold War deterrence infrastructure is becoming commercial spaceflight on the exact same ground. #SpaceCoast #CapeCanaveral