NASASpaceFlight.com

NASASpaceFlight.com (commonly abbreviated as NSF) is a news website, forum, and media company founded in 2004, covering crewed and uncrewed spaceflight and aerospace engineering news. The site focuses on the technical and engineering aspects of the United States space program, but also covers spaceflight activities of private companies and other countries around the world. NASA SpaceFlight has had stories picked up by news organizations such as MSNBC,[1] USA Today,[2] The New York Times,[3] and Popular Science.[4] An accredited space news media organization, NASA SpaceFlight also frequently broadcasts its own independently-produced live videos of rocket launches online. NSF is owned and operated by founder and managing editor Chris Bergin, and content is produced by a team of spaceflight reporters, journalists, contributors, editors, photographers, and videographers across the United States and other countries.[5]

NASASpaceFlight.com
Screenshot
Screenshot of NASASpaceFlight.com from August 2018
Type of site
Online newspaper
OwnerChris Bergin
Created byChris Bergin
URLwww.nasaspaceflight.com
CommercialYes
LaunchedMay 6, 2004 (2004-05-06)
Current statusOnline

History

The site was conceived from an idea between Chris Bergin and three NASA and United Space Alliance managers, who wanted to see a news media site cover space flight (specifically the Space Shuttle, the Vision for Space Exploration and NASA) from an engineering standpoint, concentrating on breaking news and documentation that involved the communication between the engineers and managers and the general public who were interested.

The website went online in the summer of 2005, just before the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission (STS-114) following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It soon expanded its coverage from NASA to all crewed and uncrewed spaceflight, by both commercial providers as well as international space agencies, and began following the development of new launch vehicles and spacecraft. NSF also developed a team of photographers and videographers to capture views from launch sites and other various facilities, for publication on the site.

Video content

In 2019, NSF began publishing content on its YouTube channel, where HD video of various aerospace activities is uploaded regularly. The channel also hosts live broadcasts of rocket launches from various launch sites, particularly Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, usually hosted on-site by assistant managing editor Chris Gebhardt, as well as hardware testing at the SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Boca Chica, Texas broadcast on-site by Mary "Boca Chica Gal", a videographer who had been a resident of the site before the development of the spaceport, and began contributing to NSF in 2018.

A weekly space news recap show and podcast "NSF Live", hosted by contributors Jack Beyer, Thomas Burghardt, John "Das" Galloway, and others, also broadcast on the channel, frequently features NSF contributors that specialize in a particular aerospace topic, or guests from the aerospace industry, to discuss topics of interest for that week, and answer questions from the audience. NSF also added space reporter and photographer Michael Baylor, who is the founder of Next Spaceflight, a NSF partner site which provides updates for rocket launch manifests and a database for launch vehicles, spacecraft, launch sites, and space missions.[6]

NSF also does live streams when it's available. Their live streams include rocket launches and testing which are within the U.S. Other live streams include SpaceX Boosters return to port and Starship rollout.

L2 database

L2 is a subscription database of documentation, graphics, data, information and video that, as of February 2020, is over 8 terabytes large. Unique information such as internal NASA memos, Flight Readiness Review documents, and ISS status reports are added daily.[7]

References
  1. Boyle, Alan (7 December 2006). "Security-conscious NASA tightens e-mail policy". NBC News. Retrieved 6 August 2009. NASASpaceFlight.com, an independent online news outlet, reported that...
  2. Watson, Traci (29 May 2007). "NASA designs a 'roller coaster' escape". USA Today. Retrieved 6 August 2009. An illustration of the new escape feature was first posted on the website NASASpaceflight.com.
  3. Schwartz, John (6 October 2006). "Debris Damage to Shuttle Is Found". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 August 2009. The existence of the hole was first reported yesterday on the Web site nasaspaceflight.com.
  4. Handelman, Stephen (1 March 2007). "Coasting to Safety". Popular Science. Retrieved 6 August 2009. Chris Bergin, editor of the independent Web site NASASpaceFlight.com, recently unearthed...
  5. "NSF About Us". Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  6. "NSF Author Michael Baylor". Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  7. "L2 – The Premier Space News Ticket" (Press release). NASAspaceflight.com. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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