Venting of oxygen propellant venting from SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage at pad 40 in the final minutes before Dec. 17, 2017 liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida to the ISS on NASA contracted CRS-13 resupply mission. The CRS-14 cargo mission is slated for launch on April 2, 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — Space UpClose — 30
Illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reset for launch in 2020. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 27 March 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Top NASA officials announced today that launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – the agencies highest priority and premiere space observatory – has been postponed to 2020 so that engineers can conduct
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) blasts off from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in this artist rendering showing a view of the liftoff of the Block 1 70-metric-ton (77-ton) crew vehicle configuration. Credit: NASA/MSFC Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 26 March 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The US Congress delivered a big boost to NASA’s 2018 budget
Space station cameras sight the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft just meters away from docking to the Poisk module on March 23, 2018. Credit: NASA TV Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 23 Mar 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL- Two days after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Russian Soyuz capsule ferrying the Expedition 55 veteran trio of spaceflyers from Russia
NASA’s Curiosity rover raised robotic arm with drill pointed skyward while exploring Vera Rubin Ridge – backdropped by the base of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater. This navcam camera mosaic was stitched from raw images taken on Sol 1912, Dec. 22, 2017 and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL/Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/Marco Di Lorenzo Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 22 Mar 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL-
The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:44 p.m. EDT March 21, 2018 (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time). The crew is scheduled to dock to the International Space Station at 3:41 p.m. March 23, 2018. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky
The combined optical element and science instruments of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were removed from their specially designed shipping container, called the Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road and Sea (STTARS), in a high bay at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, on March 8, 2018. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 18 Mar 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL,
Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on Jan. 1, 2019. With public input, the team has selected the nickname “Ultima Thule” for the object, which will be the most primitive and most distant world ever explored by spacecraft. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Steve Gribben Ken
GOES-S view of Earth from its checkout location. Credit: NOAA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 14 Mar 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Less than 2 weeks after the dinnertime blastoff of the GOES-S weather observatory put on a stunningly delicious launch display from the Florida Space Coast on March 1, 2018, the revolutionary satellite that will track extreme weather
Lockheed Martin delivered NASA’s InSight spacecraft to its California launch site on Feb. 28, 2018. The Mars lander was shipped aboard a U.S. Air Force transport plane from Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado to Vandenberg Air Force Base where it will undergo final processing in preparation for a May 2018 launch. Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 13 Mar 2018 CAPE