The SpaceX Dragon CRS-14 cargo ship was grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm on April 4, 2018 as the space station orbited above the continent of Africa. Credit: NASA TV KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Two days after successfully blasting off for the second time, a used SpaceX commercial Dragon successfully arrived early this morning, April 4, at the International
Blastoff of SpaceX Flight-proven’ Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon CRS-14 cargo ship from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on April 2 at 4:33 pm EDT to the ISS, as seen from the VAB roof. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — Space UpClose — 2 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – 3 tons of new
‘Flight-proven’ SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon CRS-14 cargo ship poised for liftoff from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on April 2 at 4:33 pm EDT to the ISS. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — Space UpClose — 2 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – SpaceX is poised for liftoff of their fourteenth commercial
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,