Miriam Kramer

Miriam Kramer

Staff Writer

Miriam Kramer joined Space.com as a Staff Writer in December 2012. Since then, she has floated in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight, felt the pull of 4-Gs in a trainer aircraft and watched rockets soar into space from Florida and Virginia. She also served as Space.com's lead space entertainment reporter, and enjoys all aspects of space news, astronomy and commercial spaceflight.  Miriam has also presented space stories during live interviews with Fox News and other TV and radio outlets. She originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee where she and her family would take trips to dark spots on the outskirts of town to watch meteor showers every year. She loves to travel and one day hopes to see the northern lights in person. Miriam is currently a space reporter with Axios, writing the Axios Space newsletter. You can follow Miriam on Twitter.

Latest articles by Miriam Kramer

Virts Sings During Colbert Finale
Space Celebrities Sing in Final Episode of 'Colbert Report'

By Miriam Kramer Published

TV personality Stephen Colbert ended his final episode of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" with a truly epic celebrity sing-along featuring more than a few space-themed surprises.

Space Movies & Shows
One-Year Mission Portrait
America's First One-Year Space Voyage Has Astronaut Excited

By Miriam Kramer Published

A NASA astronaut is getting ready to be the first American to spend a continuous year in space, and he is excited.

Human Spaceflight
SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship
SpaceX to Aim for Bulls-Eye Rocket Landing on Ocean Platform

By Miriam Kramer Published

Launches & Spacecraft
This artist's illustration depicts NASA's Option B for the Asteroid Redirect Mission, a plan to retrieve a boulder from an asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to study later.
NASA Holds Off on Asteroid-Capture Mission Decision Until Early 2015

By Miriam Kramer Published

Asteroid & Comet Missions
Cumberland' Target Drilled by Curiosity Rover
Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars Rock, Finds Water

By Miriam Kramer Published

NASA's Curiosity rover is continuing to help scientists piece together the mystery of how Mars lost its surface water over the course of billions of years.

Mars Rovers
Mars Has Ways to Make Organics Hard to Find
Curiosity Rover Finds Methane on Mars: What It Could Mean for Life

By Miriam Kramer Published

NASA's Curiosity rover has recently made a surprising find on Mars that could help scientists get one step closer to figuring out if the Red Planet has ever supported life.

Mars Rovers
2014 Geminid Meteor Over Lovund, Norway
Geminid Meteor Shower Wows Skywatchers Around the World (Photos)

By Miriam Kramer Published

The Geminid meteor shower amazed skywatchers willing to brave the cold to catch the annual display this weekend.

Meteors & Meteor Showers
2013 Geminid Meteor Shower over Colorado
Geminid Meteor Shower Is Peaking Now: Watch It Live Online

By Miriam Kramer Published

See the Geminid meteor shower peak tonight (Dec. 13) through three webcasts airing live online.

Meteors & Meteor Showers
NASA interns dance to "All About That Space," a parody of "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor, in the latest music video from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA Is 'All About That Space' in Hilarious Parody Music Video

By Miriam Kramer Published

NASA is "all about that space, 'bout that space (space travel)" in a new music video recently released by the space agency.

Entertainment
Comet 67P on Dec 1, 2014
Rosetta Spacecraft's Comet Water Discovery: What It Means for Earth

By Miriam Kramer Published

Comets
Griffin Lander by Astrobotic
Private MoonMail Project Will Launch Your Stuff to the Lunar Frontier

By Miriam Kramer Published

What would you send to the moon? A precious family heirloom? A lock of hair? For a price, you could send a small object of your choosing to the lunar surface.

Private Spaceflight
Redmayne and Jones in 'The Theory of Everything'
'Theory of Everything' Gets 4 Golden Globe Nominations

By Miriam Kramer Published

Space Movies & Shows
Artist's Concept of Space Launch System
NASA's New Space Launch System Mega Rocket Won't Fly Until 2018

By Miriam Kramer Published

NASA's new mega rocket will probably not be launching for the first time in 2017, a NASA official said before the U.S. Congress today (Dec. 10).

Launches & Spacecraft
Antares Rocket Explosion Aftermath
Private Cargo Spacecraft Gets New Rocket Ride After Accident

By Miriam Kramer Published

Human Spaceflight
Dangerous Near-Earth Asteroid Illustration
Phew! Giant Asteroid Not a Threat to Earth, NASA Says

By Miriam Kramer Published

Claims that scientists have discovered a huge asteroid that could threaten Earth aren't correct, according to NASA.

Asteroids
NASA's first Orion spacecraft parachutes down to a smooth water splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in this still image from a video recorded from the USS Anchorage, a Navy recovery ship that retrieved the capsule after its successful test flight on Dec. 5, 2
NASA's Orion Spaceship Test a 'Textbook Spaceflight'

By Miriam Kramer Published

NASA's first capsule built to take humans to Mars just completed a seemingly flawless first test flight, and experts are overjoyed with the spacecraft's performance

Launches & Spacecraft
Orion Capsule Post-Splashdown
Splashdown! NASA's Orion Spaceship Survives Epic Test Flight as New Era Begins

By Miriam Kramer Published

NASA's new Orion spacecraft, a deep-space capsule, survived an epic test flight on Friday (Dec. 5) paving the way forward for manned missions to asteroids and even Mars.

Launches & Spacecraft
Lift Off of NASA's First Orion Space Capsule
NASA Launches First Orion Deep-Space Capsule in Historic Test Flight

By Miriam Kramer Published

Launches & Spacecraft
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket stands ready to launch NASA's first Orion deep-space capsule on its debut test flight in this view taken from a helicopter flying over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 4, 2014. The rocket is
NASA to Make 2nd Attempt to Launch Orion Space Capsule: Watch It Live

By Miriam Kramer Published

Launches & Spacecraft
Kramer Tries on Spacesuit in Brooklyn
What It's Like to Wear a Spacesuit in Brooklyn

By Miriam Kramer Published

I'm sweating. I can't easily move any part of my body, and although there are people all around me, I can't communicate without activating a radio. I'm pretty uncomfortable.

Human Spaceflight
Delta 4 Heavy Rocket Carrying Orion Capsule
NASA's 21st-Century Space Capsule to Make Launch Debut Thursday

By Miriam Kramer Published

NASA's newest capsule, designed to take astronauts into deep space, is read to launch to space for the first time tomorrow (Dec. 4).

Space Exploration
Orion Stacked on Top of the Delta 4 Heavy Rocket
Weather Looks Good for NASA's Orion Spacecraft Test Flight Thursday

By Miriam Kramer Published

Launches & Spacecraft
NASA's Exploration Flight Test 1 in December 2014 will mark the first-ever flight of the Orion spacecraft, the U.S. space agency's first manned space capsule in more than 40 years.
How NASA's Landmark Orion Spacecraft Test Flight Will Work

By Miriam Kramer Published

Launches & Spacecraft
Orion Capsule's First Test Flight Illustration
NASA to Launch First Orion Spaceship Test Flight This Week

By Miriam Kramer Published

NASA is set to launch the first test flight of its deep space Orion capsule this week, and you can watch activities leading up to the Thursday (Dec. 4) launch live online.

Launches & Spacecraft
Star Cluster NGC 3532
'Wishing Well' Star Cluster Sparkles in Colorful New Views (Photos, Video)

By Miriam Kramer Published

A multicolored group of stars shine at the bottom of a cosmic wishing well in an amazing new image.

Astrophotography
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