Ben Cooper is a NASA & freelance photographer currently based out of Daytona Beach, Florida. He is 2008 graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and minor in space studies/space history and currently holds a position on NASA's photo and engineering imaging team at Kennedy Space Center & Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
His work has been used by and featured in such prominent publications as:
-NASA
-AP
-The New York Times
-AFP
-UPI
-SpaceflightNow.com
-Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine
-collectSPACE.com
-Astronomy Magazine
-Discover magazine
-Sky & Telescope magazine
-Yahoo! News (including one of the 12 "Week in Photos" for Sept. 4, 2009)
-Time Magazine online (including Photo of the Day August 24, 2009)
-Weekly Reader magazine
-Astronomy Now magazine
and The Avion, the campus newspaper of Embry-Riddle for which he was Space Technology Editor for three years, reporter for four, and received the Fall 2007 reporter award.
He was interviewed by, and this website was printed in, the New York Times in May 2010 in a story on viewing the remaining shuttle launches.
His work has also been featured in books such as Astronomy 365 and City at the Water's Edge: A Natural History of New York, available in bookstores now.
Popular Photograpy magazine profiled the photographer's work in their September 2006 issue, again for the Backstory feature in December 2009, and a third time in March 2010.
National Geographic selected this photo as a Your Shot finalist in October 2007 and the top photo here in July 2009.
And in June, 2008, an image he shot of the STS-124 launch became the subject of a NASA inquiry into major damage sustained by one of the space shuttle's launch pads.
Ben Cooper was the featured guest on the second ever of Adorama's TechTock Podcast and also on The Shutterbug Magazine Radio Show (click here for the audio file)
The photography of Ben Cooper has also been featured on the websites:
-NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (Seven APODs as of July 2010)
-SpaceWeather.com
-The World at Night
-Astronomy magazine online
-Orbital Sciences Corp.
-Space.com
So, if you see a photo you like on this website and are interested in it, or for general questions, feel free to contact the photographer.
Thank you for visiting the website,
Ben Cooper
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