IGW // PHOTOGRAPHY

Spaceflight, in frame.

Photographs from IGW's own coverage — launches, vehicles and the pads they fly from.

Featured photographs

The contact sheet.

The sun rising over water beneath a bank of cloud, its reflection running toward the camera.

Sunrise over the water

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

The engines of a Super Heavy booster firing, seen from below against cloud.

Super Heavy engines firing

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

A Super Heavy booster with its engines lit, exhaust wrapped around the aft end.

Super Heavy, engines lit

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The grid fins of a Super Heavy booster folded against the stainless hull.

Super Heavy grid fins

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

A bare stainless-steel Super Heavy booster standing alone on its launch mount beside the launch tower under a deep blue sky, mirrored in shallow water across the foreground.

Super Heavy on the mount, mirrored in the water below

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

A Super Heavy booster descends toward the launch tower at sunset, engines lit.

Super Heavy returns to the tower

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Artemis logo on the Vehicle Assembly Building above an orange Space Launch System core stage section.

The Artemis logo on the Vehicle Assembly Building

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

NASA's Space Launch System on its mobile launcher at night, floodlit, Orion at the top of the stack.

The floodlit Space Launch System with Orion

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

A fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy standing on its launch mount beside the lattice tower, seen across flat scrub and sandy ground, with shallow water and wetland flats beyond and tall pale buildings on the distant horizon.

The full stack on the mount, tower alongside

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy standing beside its launch tower under a clear blue sky, with a dark sign in the right foreground reading PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO TRESPASSING.

The full stack on the pad, seen past a private property sign

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher at night in a long exposure, streaked with light.

The Space Launch System at night, long exposure

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher in daylight, a water tower beside it.

The Space Launch System beside the water tower

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System clears the tower, exhaust pouring from the boosters and core stage.

The Space Launch System clears the tower

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

A rocket with an orange core stage and twin white solid rocket boosters climbing off the pad on a bright column of flame, with a white crew spacecraft on the nose and a billowing wall of exhaust cloud below. A yellow emergency egress basket hangs on the pad's slidewire cables to the left of the vehicle.

The Space Launch System climbs off the pad in early light

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System climbs past a United States flag, its exhaust column bright against a clear sky.

The Space Launch System climbs past the flag

Photograph · Sam Kaplan for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System climbs on a column of flame, boosters burning, the exhaust cloud spreading below.

The Space Launch System lifts off

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher in daylight, seen from the front.

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher, front view

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher seen from a distance across water and scrub, lightning towers either side.

The Space Launch System on the pad, from across the water

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System standing fully stacked inside an assembly building high bay: an orange core stage flanked by two white solid rocket boosters, topped by a white crew stage carrying NASA and ESA markings and a US flag, surrounded on both sides by tiers of steel work platforms and lights.

The Space Launch System stacked in the high bay, boosters flanking the orange core

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher at night under a deep blue sky.

The Space Launch System under a deep blue night sky

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

A stainless-steel Super Heavy booster standing on its launch mount with a dark, heat-shield-tiled Starship above it, seen from ground level under a clear blue sky. The launch tower rises at left with its two arms reaching across toward the vehicle.

The stack on the mount, alongside the tower's arms

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

The aft end of a rocket climbing away, three engine bells burning pink and violet beneath a dark stage sheathed in streaming condensation. A lattice lightning tower and the pad's guy wires cross the pale blue sky at right.

Three engines and a violet plume, seen through the pad's guy wires

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

Two children, one in a blue flight suit, sit on a wall at a viewing site giving a thumbs-up.

Two children give a thumbs-up at the viewing site

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

Spectators under umbrellas at a waterfront viewing site, a United States flag flying above them.

Umbrellas beneath a United States flag

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway