A ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the GOES-S weather satellite mission for NASA and NOAA is rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility to Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on Feb. 28, 2018.  Launch set for Mar. 1, 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   28 Feb 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – At

The NASA/NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is being processed in the clean room at Astrotech Space Operations, in Titusville, FL, on Jan. 16, in advance of planned launch on a ULA Atlas V slated for Mar. 1, 2018.  GOES-S belongs to new constellation of America’s most advanced weather satellites. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL –Liftoff of the

The NASA/NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is being processed in the clean room at Astrotech Space Operations, in Titusville, FL, on Jan. 16, in advance of nose cone encapsulation for planned launch on a ULA Atlas V slated for Mar. 1, 2018.  GOES-S belongs to new constellation of America’s most advanced weather satellites. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com KENNEDY SPACE CENTER,

Vice President Mike Pence addresses a meeting of the National Space Council in the high bay of the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Feb. 21, 2018. Chaired by the Vice President, the council heard testimony from representatives from civil space, commercial space and national security space industry representatives, backdropped by the NASA Orion,

Artists concept of NASA’s proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway for human crewed missions to deep space, targeting the first element launch in 2022. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   13 Feb 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL- The Trump Administration is charting a new course for NASA that redirects the space agency to focus on Lunar exploration as a near

Scorched and sooty SpaceX Falcon Heavy landed side booster after two trips to space and back is briefly on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, FL, outside the Space Shuttle Atlantis pavilion. Photos taken 19 Feb. 2018 following maiden blastoff and landing on 6 Feb. 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   19 Feb 2018

The International Space Station (ISS) operates in Low Earth Orbit as a platform for science and a peaceful cooperative effort of five space agencies comprising 17 countries worldwide. Construction stated in 1998 and it has been continuously occupied since 2000 – as seen in 2011 after undocking of visiting Space Shuttle during STS-132 mission. Credit: NASA Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com 

Last photo of space suited Starman mannequin driving SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster on Feb. 8, 2018 on its journey to Mars orbit and then the Asteroid Belt after launch atop Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6 2018 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.   Credit: SpaceX/Elon Musk Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   8 Feb 2018 KENNEDY SPACE

Maiden SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 6, 2017.  Nose cone housing Starman seated in Tesla Roadster is stenciled with Falcon Heavy logo. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   8 Feb 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL –  The maiden blastoff of the SpaceX Falcon

New species of ‘Falcon’ born.  With ‘Fire & Fury’ the SpaceX ‘Falcon Heavy’ emerges from the massive exhaust cloud of the ‘birth canal’ at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following Feb. 6, 2018 debut test flight launch.  The payload was the spacesuited ‘Starman’ mannequin buckled into the driver’s seat of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s red Tesla