Aspirational concept of Gateway crewed lunar outpost shown by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine as he announces NASA’s 2020 budget request from the Trump Administration to NASA employees, contractors and the media at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 11, 2019. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –25 March 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – An update on
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Anne McClain work to swap batteries in the Port-4 truss structure during March 22, 2019 spacewalk. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –25 March 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A pair of NASA astronauts completed a swap out of batteries during a spacewalk, Friday, March 22, that will enable a power upgrade to the International
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19, 2019 was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Other image processing techniques were also applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and contrast of each image. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 23 March 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL,
UpClose view of the first stage engines on the ULA Delta IV rocket including the liquid fueled RS-68 and four solid rocket motors moments after liftoff of the WGS-10 mission for the U.S. Air Force from Space Launch Complex-37 at 8:26 p.m. ET on March 15, 2019 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL – in this remote camera photo
Beresheet moon lander mission timeline and trajectory. Credit: Space IL Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 19 March 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Isreal’s first moon mission the privately funded ‘Beresheet’ lunar lander is on course for Destination Moon and capture into lunar orbit following a successful one minute long thruster firing of the main engine this morning, Tuesday, March
View with 3D Glasses: This image of Ultima Thule can be viewed with red-blue stereo glasses to reveal the Kuiper Belt object’s three-dimensional shape. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/National Optical Astronomy Observatory Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –17 March 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The most distant object ever visited is now unveiled in striking 3D thanks
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the WGS-10 mission for the U.S. Air Force lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at 8:26 p.m. ET on March 15, 2019 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL – as birds flutter in this remote camera photo from the launch pad. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –16 March
File photo of ULA Delta IV rocket poised for sunset blastoff with the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-9) mission for the U.S. Air Force from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fl, on Mar. 18, 2017. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –15 March 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Nearing the end of its glorious 16 year life
The Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is launched with Expedition 59 crewmembers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, along with Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Friday March 15, 2019, Kazakh time (March 14 Eastern time) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin will spend six-and-a-half months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Ken
NASA’s Orion Crew Module and European Service Module orbit around the Moon. Credit: NASA/ESA, ATG-medialab Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –13 March 2019 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – In a startling and totally unexpected turn of events NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said during congressional testimony today, March 13, that the agency is considering commercial launch vehicle options for launching Orion’s 1st