Israeli Beresheet lunar lander took this image at an altitude of 13.7 miles (22 kilometers) above the moon on April 11, 2019. Credit: SpaceIL Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 12 April 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL- After a gallant effort worthy of the celestial goal the small privately built Israeli moon lander Beresheet fortified with high hopes failed in

Stunning blastoff of triple barreled SpaceX Falcon Heavy on April 11, 2019 at 6:35 PM ET from Launch Complex-39A at the Kennedy Space Center, FL carrying the Arabsat-6A telecommunications satellite to Earth orbit, on 1st commercial launch of Falcon Heavy.  From my remote camera placed at pad 39a.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 11 April 2019

Artists concept of Israeli Beresheet lunar probe firing thrusters for moon landing slated for April 11, 2019.  Credit: SpaceIL/IAI Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 11 April 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL- Israeli’s first ever mission to the moon – Beresheet – is on course to complete a thrilling first of its kind lunar touchdown later today, Thursday, April 11,

Prelaunch view of SpaceX Falcon Heavy being raised erect at pad39A carrying the Arabsat-6A communications satellite to Earth orbit for launch on April 10, 2019 at 6:35 PM ET from Launch Complex-39A at the Kennedy Space Center, FL.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 9/10 April 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  Only the second ever

Israeli Beresheet moon lander achieves lunar orbit after completing six minute burn on 4 April 2019. Credit: SpaceIL  Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 4 April 2019 Barely six weeks after blastoff from the Florida Space Coast, Israel’s privately built Beresheet Moon lander fired its braking thrusters and was successfully captured into lunar orbit this morning, Thursday, April 4, setting

Israeli Beresheet moon lander mission timeline and trajectory. Lunar orbit capture planned for April 4, 2019. Credit: SpaceIL/IAI NEW YORK – Its do or die with a critical thruster firing upcoming on Thursday, April 4, for Israel’sBeresheet lunar lander required so the Moon can capture the tiny probe and set the stage for a hoped for a history making soft

Artists concept of the joint ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars 2020 mission showing the ESA rover newly named after distinguished scientist Rosalind Franklin and the science landing platform named ‘Kazachok’. ExoMars 2020 will launch in July 2020 on a Russian Proton rocket to land on Mars in April 2021. Credit: ESA Ken Kremer  —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –28 March 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The

Curiosity’s 360 panorama of ‘Rock Hall’: This panorama from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover was taken on Dec. 19 (Sol 2265). The rover’s last drill location on Vera Rubin Ridge is visible, as well as the clay region it will spend the next year exploring. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Ken Kremer  —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –27 March 2019 CAPE

Vice President Mike Pence speaks about NASA’s mandate to return American astronauts to the Moon and on to Mars at the fifth meeting of the National Space Council March 26, 2019, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.  Credits: NASA Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 26 March 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  Vice President Mike Pence