Ben Cooper
Ben Cooper is an award-winning photographer at Cape Canaveral, FL, and has photographed over 400 launches to date. As an official photographer for some of the biggest launch providers, as well as for NASA and several media outlets over the past 20+ years, he has captured many of the most well-known and iconic space mission photos taken in the last two decades. Working in the final three years of the Space Shuttle program, he also covered both engineering photography requirements and public affairs imagery.
He is the author of the 2019 book Launch Photography.
He specializes in aerospace, astronomical and travel photography, including traveling the globe to chase solar eclipses and the aurora, and has photographed on all seven continents. He is an alumnus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Minor in Space Studies/space history.
He is a winner of the 2019 Kolcum Award "for excellence in telling the space story along Florida’s Space Coast and throughout the world."
Latest articles by Ben Cooper

Chasing a Solar Eclipse: Hitting the Bull's Eye at 44,000 Feet (First Person)
By Ben Cooper published

Sunday Solar Eclipse: Skywatchers to Chase Moon's Shadow by Land, Sea & Air
By Ben Cooper published

Skylab's Remains: NASA Space Station Debris in Australia (Photos)
By Ben Cooper published
See the remains of Skylab, NASA's first space station, in Australia as captured by veteran space photographer Ben Cooper.

Skylab's Grave: Remains of 1st American Space Station in Australia
By Ben Cooper published
Debris from the first American space station is on view near where it landed in Australia
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