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."
