This pre-dust storm panoramic mosaic view was one of the last ones taken by NASA’s Opportunity rover and shows the spectacular view from her approximate current position as of June 2018 after traveling halfway down the fluid carved slope of Perseverance Valley – while peeing into the interior of vast Endeavour Crater. This navcam camera photo mosaic was assembled by
Northrop Grumman built Cygnus NG-10 cargo spacecraft is prepped inside darkened clean room High Bay facility at NASA Wallops with range finding lights illuminated to aid station astronauts verify the correct attitude and position on approach in space. It was named in honor of NASA astronaut and Apollo 16 moonwalker John Young on Oct. 24, 2018. Blastoff on Antares rocket
The view from Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument on Sept. 25, 2018, shows Earth, the bright sphere near the middle of the right-hand panel. The elongated mark toward the bottom of the panel is a lens reflection from the WISPR instrument. Credits: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 27 October 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL –
The Northrop Grumman built Cygnus NG-10 cargo spacecraft is prepped inside clean room High Bay facility at NASA Wallops and named in honor NASA astronaut and Apollo 16 moonwalker John Young on Oct. 24, 2018. Blastoff on Antares rocket is slated for Nov. 15, 2018 from pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia bound for the International Space
One of NASA’s twin MarCO spacecraft took this image of Mars on October 2, 2018 — the first time a CubeSat, a kind of low-cost, briefcase-sized spacecraft — has done so. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 22 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s first ever interplanetary cubesats – named MarCO- have snapped an image of Mars for
Up Close Engine view of the fiery fury spewing from the five first stage Aerojet Rocketdyne solid rocket boosters and liquid fueled Russian made RD-180 engine after launch of the ULA Atlas V carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF-4 jam resistant military communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force on Oct. 17, 2018 at 12:15 a.m. ET from Space
ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury lifts off on ESA Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 9:45 p.m. EDT 19 October 2018 (01:45:28 GMT 20 October 2018) beginning a 7 year journey to Planet Mercury. Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 19 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Combining the vast forces and talents of the European and
Renowned cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, Roscosmos Executive Director for Manned Flights, speaks to the reporters in Moscow about the Soyuz failure. Credit: Roscosmos Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 18 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The emergency abort of the Soyuz crew launch with two crewmembers strapped inside on Oct. 11 was apparently caused by a failure in the booster separation
Streaking to Orbit: United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF-4 jam resistant military communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force blasts off shortly after midnight liftoff to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) in this long duration exposure photo on Oct. 17, 2018 at 12:15 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the AEHF-4 milcomsat for the U.S. Air Force is poised for midnight liftoff to GTO on Oct. 17, 2018 at 12:15 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on a national security mission. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 16 October 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL