Northrop Cygnus NG-10 commercial resupply spacecraft, named the S.S. John Young, grappled by the space station’s Canadarm2  robotic arm on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018. Credit: NASA/Serena Auñón-Chancellor Ken Kremer —SpaceUpClose.com  & RocketSTEM –22 November 2018 NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VA & CAPE CANAVERAL, FL– This is a very good and busy week in space as the American Cygnus and Russian

Recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster is craned off the ocean going OCISLY droneship platform on Nov. 20, 2018 onto mounting cradle on land at Port Canaveral, FL, using Booster Lift/Leg Retraction Device (BLLRD).  The nine Merlin 1D first stage engines are clearly visible at the booster base glistening in the sun. It was towed into port Nov. 19

Illustration of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launching atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, targeted for January 2019.  Credits: SpaceX Ken Kremer  —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –21 November 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  NASA and SpaceX announced January 7, 2019 as the targeted launch date for the first unpiloted test flight

SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster sails back into Port Canaveral, FL on Nov. 19, 2018 towed to dockside berthing port by SpaceX Naval fleet atop the ocean going OCISLY droneship platform upon which it landed – after launching Es’hail-2 comsat on Nov. 15 from Launch Complex-39A at Kennedy Space Center, FL.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –19

The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus NG-10 resupply spacecraft onboard, is seen above the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, on Nov. 17, 2018. The rocket launched from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia that morning. Northrop Grumman’s 10th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 7,400 pounds of science

Due to persistent drenching downpours Northrop Grumman Antares rocket on the Cygnus NG-10 cargo mission had to stay another two days atop the On-Ramp to the International Space Station at pad 0A on NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Launch now reset to Nov. 17 at 4:01 a.m. EST. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/SpaceUpClose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com  & RocketSTEM –16 November 2018 NASA

Oceanside view of Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus NG-10 cargo freighter  aboard bound for the International Space Station, is seen on Pad-0A, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Poor weather forced launch postponement to No Earlier Than NET Friday, Nov, 16, 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/SpaceUpClose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –14 November 2018

Two Northrop Grumman Antares commercial rockets being processed for launch side by side inside the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.  Antares NG-10 rocket assembly at left is slated for launch Nov. 15, 2018 from pad 0A at NASA Wallops bound for the International Space Station.  Antares NG-11 booster at right is scheduled

Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Credit: ​NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM — 9 November 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Skimming closer to the sun than any human-made object ever in human history, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record setting 1st close encounter with the sun on Monday, Nov. 5 – less than

Up Close view of Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus XL rocket containing NASA’s ICON Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite attached to belly beneath the company’s L-1011 Stargazer aircraft that deploys the probe at 39,000 feet. Seen here on the runway of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip, FL, on Nov. 2, 2018. No new date set yet after launch scrub