About Spaceflight Now

Steven founded Spaceflight Now in 1999 and currently serves as Editor on the website and YouTube channel. He was a correspondent for the Reuters news agency from 1996-1999, covering space shuttle launches from Kennedy Space Center and expendable rocket launches from the Cape and frequently traveled to Johnson Space Center in Houston for in-flight mission coverage.

He started his career in space journalism in 1988 serving as assistant editor of the British Interplanetary Society’s Spaceflight magazine in London. In addition to covering launches from Cape Canaveral, Steven has reported on missions from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, missions to Mir and the International Space Station from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and liftoffs from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island in Alaska.

Steven was also publisher of Astronomy Now, the UK’s longest-running astronomy magazine, for more than 30 years, and is organizer of the annual European AstroFest conference and exhibition in London. He received the Harry Kolcum News and Communications Award in 2024 from the National Space Club Florida Committee.

Will Robinson-Smith serves as the anchor for the majority of Spaceflight Now launch broadcasts and also works as a reporter. In this role, Will travels to meet the news where it’s happening, from commercial factories to NASA centers and elsewhere around the country. He writes news articles for the website, www.spaceflightnow.com, as well as creates enterprise video reports for Spaceflight Now’s YouTube channel and produces social media content.

Before joining Spaceflight Now in July 2023, Will arrived in Central Florida to work as a local news reporter/fill-in anchor at Spectrum News 13. While there from 2021 through 2023, Will was a bureau reporter in Brevard County, covering both regional news and stories specific to the space beat. Will co-anchored numerous launch broadcasts for Spectrum News from the Kennedy Space Center and helped produce a 30-minute special on the Apollo 11 Moon landing.

Prior to moving to Florida, Will was an evening weekend anchor/multi-media journalist for WAAY-TV in Huntsville, Alabama, and an MMJ for WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama, prior to that.

John Pisani serves as Executive Producer and Technical Director for Spaceflight Now, directing live launch broadcasts and building the camera systems, studio infrastructure, and production tools behind the coverage. From custom pad-side camera rigs to running multi-camera coverage live for audiences reaching millions, John works across the entire production pipeline and helps guide the organization’s technical and creative direction.

A photographer by trade, John has spent nearly a decade documenting the space program. That work grew from still photography into videography, livestream operation, and the engineering of the systems that make live launch coverage possible. He is also an FAA Part 107 drone pilot and a creative technologist who builds custom web applications and production tools for niche media environments. Fun fact—the very website you are reading this on was designed and developed by John.

Adam Bernstein serves as a photographer and videographer for Spaceflight Now, based at the Kennedy Space Center. After relocating from New York City to Florida in 2008, he has covered the space industry full-time, traveling to spaceports across the country to document launches, crews, and the growth of America’s space program. Over the past several years, he has documented hundreds of missions from various providers, building a visual record of one of the most active periods in American spaceflight history.

His work at Spaceflight Now covers editorial photography and video production, and extends into the field engineering behind nearly every live launch broadcast from Cape Canaveral, rigging remote cameras at the pad and building out the livestreaming networks that deliver each mission to audiences around the world.

Michael Cain has been a part-time photographer for Spaceflight Now since 2021. When he isn’t supporting the SFN team he is a Data Engineer supporting the Marketing team at Universal.

Prior to 2021 he has been documenting spaceflight through photography since August 2017. Recently Michael has hit a personal milestone of 300 launches he has covered. In between launches he supports the SFN by monitoring social media platforms and other misc tasks.