NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover Gets Mast and Wheels: Photos

Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 project take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover. The image was taken on June 5, 2019, in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility’s High Bay 1 clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 14 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL

Orion Artemis 1 Service Module Completes Acoustic Tests, Solar Wings Installed

Orion’s European built service module for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission completed acoustic testing inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 25, 2019.  Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux    Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 12 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The European-built service module for NASA’s Orion crew spacecraft has completed acoustic

Watch NASA Build the 2020 Red Planet Rover: Webcam

The “Seeing 2020” live video feed allows the public to watch engineers and technicians assemble and test NASA’s next Mars rover in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 10 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  Thanks to a newly installed webcam, you can watch as NASA builds

Trump Tweet Trashes His Own Plans for NASA’s Accelerated Moon Landing

President Donald Trump after signing Space Policy Directive 1 on Dec. 11, 2017, directing NASA to return to the moon. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 7 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  With a single tweet President Donald Trump trashed his own plans for NASA’s accelerated human Moon landing program thereby jeopardizing the  return of American

NASA Opens ISS to Expanded Commercialization & Private Astronauts

The International Space Station photographed by the departing Expedition 56 crew members in the Soyuz MS-08 crew capsule on Oct. 4, 2018. Credit: Roscosmos/NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 7 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – From the business capital of the world at Nasdaq in New York City NASA officials today, June 7, announced a significant expansion in commercial