A Soyuz booster rocket launches the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 carrying Expedition 58 Soyuz crew to the ISS – as seen and photographed from the ISS by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst.   Ken Kremer  —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –3 December 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL –  The International Space Station (ISS) is

This “super-resolution” view of asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2018, from a distance of about 205 miles (330 kilometers).  Rendezvous with target asteroid, Bennu, slated for Dec. 3, 2018. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Ken Kremer  —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –2 December 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling spacecraft is

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 58 crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) pose for pictures Nov. 20, 2018 in front of their Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft.  Launch slated for Dec. 3, 2018. Credits: NASA/Victor Zelentsov Ken Kremer  —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –2

SpaceX conducts successful nighttime static fire test of new Falcon 9 first stage engines at 10:20 p.m. EDT on Nov. 30 at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for CRS-16 resupply mission to the ISS targeted for launch Dec. 4, 2018.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –30 November 2018 TITUSVILLE, FL –  An all new