Artist’s concept of NASA’s Orbital ATK-built Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) planet hunting satellite orbiting the Earth-Moon system. Credit: NASA/Orbital ATK Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   13 May 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s recently launched TESS planet hunting probe is healthy, operating very well, and more than halfway through the demanding regimen of on board thruster firings required

Beautiful blastoff of Bangabandhu-1 geostationary communications satellite for nation of Bangladesh on 1st new and improved Block 5 version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on May 11, 2018 at 4:14 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida – as seen from the pad crawlerway. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   11

First newly improved SpaceX Block 5 Falcon 9 booster vents gaseous oxygen in the final seconds of countdown before aborting planned May 10, 2018 liftoff with Bangabandhu-1 geocomsat for Bangladesh on Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Launch reset to May 11. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   11 May 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER,

First upgraded SpaceX Block 5 Falcon 9 booster stands erect beside a recovered Falcon Heavy side boost and poised for blastoff on May 10, 2018 with Bangabandhu-1, the 1st ever geostationary communications satellite for the nation of Bangladesh from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   10 May 2018

After completing hold down static fire test of first stage engines on May 4 of the first upgraded Block 5 Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX targets May 10, 2018 launch of the Bangabandhu-1 communications satellite from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   7 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – 

The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, Saturday, May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California through thick fog to study the “inner space” of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.  Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   5 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  The InSight lander blasted off in the

SpaceX team conducts hold down static fire test of first stage engines on the first upgraded Block 5 Falcon 9 booster prior to launch of the Bangabandhu-1 communications satellite from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in May 2018.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   4 May 2018 PLAYALNDA BEACH CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, FL

Artist’s rendering of the NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander on Mars launching on May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif .  Credits: NASA Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   4 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  NASA’s InSight Mars lander is ready for blastoff to the Red Planet on Saturday, May 5,

Artist image of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft docking to the International Space Station. Image credit: Boeing Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   2 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and Boeing are studying a significant expansion to the scope of the first crewed orbital test flight of the Starliner commercial crew spacecraft that would essentially change its nature from a

At Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA’s InSight, Mars lander is positioned atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on April 23, 2018. Photo credit: USAF 30th Space Wing/Leif Heimbold Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   1 May 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  NASA’s InSight Mars lander and the Atlas V booster that will