Author: Ken Kremer

Watch for Ken’s continuing onsite coverage of NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and more space and mission reports direct from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Stay tuned here for Ken's continuing Earth and Planetary science and human spaceflight news. Dr. Kremer is a research scientist and journalist based in the KSC area, active in outreach and interviewed regularly on TV and radio about space topics. Ken’s photos are for sale and he is available for lectures and outreach events.

NASA TESS Exoplanet Hunter Poised for Launch to Discover New Habitable Worlds: Watch Live April 16

Up close view of NASA TESS exoplanet hunter encapsulated inside the nose cone atop SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket poised for liftoff from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on April 16 at 6:32 pm EDT. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   16 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter is

Gorgeous Sunset Blastoff Delivers Multi Satellite Payload of Air Force Research Satellites to High Orbit on Mightiest ULA Atlas V

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Air Force Space Command AFSPC-11 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on April 14, 2018 at 7:13 p.m. EDT on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL.  Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   14 April 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Skywatchers were treated to an

ULA Ready to Launch USAF Technology Testing Satellites On Most Powerful Atlas V on Apr 14: Watch Live

A ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the Air Force Space Command AFSPC-11 mission is poised for liftoff on April 14, 2018 after being rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex-41 on April 13.  Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   13 April 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL –

In the Cleanroom with TESS – NASA’s Newest Exoplanet Hunter Launching April 16

NASA’s TESS Exoplanet hunter being processed by technicians inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility clean room on Feb 20, 2018 at the Kennedy Space Center.  Launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 set for April 16, 2018. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/kenkremer.com Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   11 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s newest exoplanet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

Flight Proven SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Poised for NASA Cargo Blastoff to International Space Station on April 2: Watch Live

‘Flight-proven’ SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon CRS-14 cargo ship poised for liftoff from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on April 2 at 4:33 pm EDT to the ISS. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   Space UpClose  —   2 April 2018 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL –  SpaceX is poised for liftoff of their fourteenth commercial

Weather Promising for Easter Monday SpaceX Launch of Recycled Falcon 9 and Dragon Resupply Ship to Space Station

Venting of oxygen propellant venting from SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage at pad 40 in the final minutes before Dec. 17, 2017 liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida to the ISS on NASA contracted CRS-13 resupply mission. The CRS-14 cargo mission is slated for launch on April 2, 2018.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer  —   Space UpClose  —   30

NASA Postpones Webb Telescope Launch to 2020 for Testing to Resolve Technical Issues

Illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reset for launch in 2020.  Credit: NASA Ken Kremer  —   SpaceUpClose.com  —   27 March 2018 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  Top NASA officials announced today that launch of the  James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) –  the agencies highest priority and premiere space observatory – has been postponed to 2020 so that engineers can conduct