At Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA’s InSight, Mars lander is positioned atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on April 23, 2018. Photo credit: USAF 30th Space Wing/Leif Heimbold Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 1 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s InSight Mars lander and the Atlas V booster that will
NASA’s next planet-hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 18, 2018 from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL – in this view from a pad camera. TESS will search for new worlds outside our solar system for further study. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com
NASA’s next planet-hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on April 18, 2018. TESS will search for new worlds outside our solar system for further study. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 18 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s powerful TESS probe aiming to discover new Earth-like habitable worlds
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and NASA TESS exoplanet hunter poised for liftoff from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on April 18 at 6:51 pm EDT. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 18 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After Mondays planned launch of NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter was scrubbed due to problems
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Air Force Space Command AFSPC-11 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on April 14, 2018 at 7:13 p.m. EDT on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 16 April 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – A duo of military research
Up close view of NASA TESS exoplanet hunter encapsulated inside the nose cone atop SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket poised for liftoff from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on April 16 at 6:32 pm EDT. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 16 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter is
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Air Force Space Command AFSPC-11 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on April 14, 2018 at 7:13 p.m. EDT on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 14 April 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Skywatchers were treated to an
A ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the Air Force Space Command AFSPC-11 mission is poised for liftoff on April 14, 2018 after being rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex-41 on April 13. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 13 April 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL –
NASA’s TESS Exoplanet hunter being processed by technicians inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility clean room on Feb 20, 2018 at the Kennedy Space Center. Launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 set for April 16, 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com — 11 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s newest exoplanet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Closeup view of 9 Merlin 1D engines firing at base of SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage launching 3 ton Dragon CRS-14 cargo delivery mission to the ISS for NASA on April 2 at 4:33 pm EDT from pad 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — Space UpClose — 4 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE