Gary Lundy

Teacher at the Rock School. Christ follower, dad, husband, Gator, and space enthusiast.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launches Roman Space Telescope https://t.co/VccCcDS2hK

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon Heavy launch @NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope https://t.co/UW6wK09tkO

[Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex @ExploreSpaceKSC]

Less than one hour until launch! NASA and SpaceX are Currently targeting August 30 at 7:26 AM for launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. Weather has improved to 70% favorable for liftoff. https://t.co/JUHFuKyXav

[NASA HQ PHOTO @nasahqphoto]

The @SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with @NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is seen at sunrise at Launch Complex 39A at @NASAKennedy as preparations continue for launch. 📷: https://t.co/ux8yZa1crv

[Ben Cooper @LaunchPhoto]

Liftoff of Artemis II! The first human mission around the moon since the Apollo era. A gorgeous launch into clear skies about an hour before sunset, on the first attempt. I set this one hoping it would launch in the early minutes of the window. Photo: United Launch Alliance

[Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex @ExploreSpaceKSC]

NASA's camera at The Gantry at LC-39 captured awe-inspiring footage of the Artemis II launch on April 1, 2026. 🚀👀

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Good overview of the landing. We nominally target a few hundred feet away from Jacklyn to avoid a severe impact if engines fail to start or start slowly. We’ll incrementally reduce that conservatism over time. We are all excited and grateful for yesterday. Amazing performance by the team! Gradatim Ferociter.

[Dr. Sian “Leo” Proctor @DrSianProctor]

Huge congratulations to @blueorigin and @NASA!! 👏🏾❤️🚀

[Astrid Cordero @Astronaut_87]

Congratulations @blueorigin to Mars!

🎥 Me for @WeAreSpaceScout

#Blueorigin #NASA #ESCAPADE #NewGlenn

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

Absolutely gorgeous shot of today’s New Glenn launch!!! 😍

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

The readiness poll is complete. New Glenn is GO for launch and proceeding to terminal count. Tune in live to the webcast.
https://t.co/PZaV8KOyK8

[Space Intelligence @SpaceIntel101]

Orbital launch no. 258 of 2025 🇺🇲🚀2🛰️

ESCAPADE | Blue Origin | November 09 | 1945 UTC

@BlueOrigin to launch @NASA's ESCAPADE mission on its heavy-lift New Glenn🚀to Earth-Sun L2 trajectory from @SLDelta45 LC-36, Cape Canaveral.
The twin spacecraft of ESCAPADE (ESCApe and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), Blue and Gold, will study Mars' magnetosphere and how solar wind contributed to the loss of its atmosphere.
Built by @RocketLab and led by @ucbssl, it is part of NASA's SIMPLEx (Small Innovative Missions for Planetary EXploration) program.

[Ryan Caton @dpoddolphinpro]

NEW GLENN-2: L-27 hours, and the full vehicle (GS1-2 Never Tell Me The Odds + GS2-2 + ESCAPADE) is vertical at Launch Complex-36!

Set your reminder for our live coverage → https://t.co/m29NixlmyC

Weather Forecast
Launch Weather is forecast 65% Go at the top of the window - this deteriorates to 55% Go at the end.

Primary concerns are Cumulus clouds, Anvil clouds, & the Surface Electric Fields Rule.

Landing Weather is forecast Low Risk.

Let's go to Mars!*
*via L2

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

Our second New Glenn launch may be visible to those in the regions below, depending on weather conditions. Here’s when and where to look to the skies!

[SpaceNews @SpaceNews_Inc]

Blue Origin seeking exemption from FAA order restricting commercial launches https://t.co/Q5jN36JSG4

[Dave Limp @davill]

NG-2 is vertical at LC-36.
One step closer to Mars!

[Gary Lundy @glundy31]

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